From ata

Dobrina and Ian, I just read the article below - did you know this doctor?

Top UW doctor killed by crocodile in Africa

By TOM PAULSON
The Seattle Post Intelligencer
Mar. 21
Dr. Richard K. Root, a gifted clinical teacher at the University of Washington Medical School and former chief of medicine at Harborview Medical Center, moved to Botswana earlier this month to help alleviate Africa's desperate shortage of doctors and nurses.

The article is much longer of course, if you want to look it up.