William T. Close is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He is a village doc in Big Piney, Wyoming. Prior to settling in Wyoming, he spent 16 years in Africa, arriving in the Congo just before independence and just in time for the mutinies, coup d'etats, and rebellions that have marked the history of that unhappy country. He became the personal physician to the president and chief doctor for the Congolese Army.
During the Ebola outbreak in 1976 he supervised logistics for the international medical team of scientists dealing more...