The migration minister, Yiannis Mouzalas, a physician with Doctors of the World, described conditions as miserable after visiting the island on Sunday.
Dr. Fielding, the Australian bariatric surgeon, knows firsthand the change in attitudes that can occur in patients and colleagues when they deal with doctors of different weights.
Meanwhile, the profession was being held responsible for improving Apgar scores and mortality rates for new-borns everywhere — at hospitals small and large, with doctors of all levels of experience.
Cocaine not only captured the attention of both men, it launched their careers: they used it to experiment on patients and, as was often true with doctors of that generation, in the private laboratories of their own bodies.
Wahila Alam, a 28-year-old Pakistani physician, came to New York a year ago to work as an H.I.V.-treatment project researcher with Doctors of the World, a humanitarian organization that deploys medical professionals both here and abroad.
"We see patients whose feet are in an awful condition," says Holly Howe Watson, a nurse with Doctors of the World (DOTW), the only group providing medical care to the thousands of refugees and migrants who live here, in limbo.
