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Letter
Clinical Medicine and Culture: Impressions of the First Australian Exchange Clinician to the NCCH
To the Editor:
I have recently returned to Melbourne, Australia, after spending 4 months in the Gastric Surgery Division of the National Cancer Center Hospital in Tokyo as a visitor of the Foundation for the Promotion of Cancer Research. I write this letter to describe some of my reflections of my time spent there.
Two particular factors affected my experience at NCC. First, I lived in Japan for 12 months as a secondary school exchange student in 1977. I spent this time in the city of Oyabe, in Toyama prefecture, and have visited many times since. I therefore arrived in Tokyo with reasonable Japanese language skills,