Brock knows how it is live so far from help. For 15 years he lived with the Wapishanas in the Amazon basin.He got malaria, dengue fever and was attacked by wild animals and surviving it without medical care. But he saw hundred people die from illnesses that could be easily cured with simple medicine.
Brock left the Amazon to become an animal wrangler on the 60s television shows, Wild Kingdom. But he knew he'd have to do something someday for people like Wapishanas about medical care.
Sinse 1985 he founded RAM, that has made over a quarter million free " office visits" . Over 20.000 medical profesionals have provided that care.
Everybody volunters have pays their own expenses, Stan Brock has never taken a penny out of Ram and lives in one room of an abandoned schoolhouse, the city of Nashville, donated as headquarters for RAM.
