As I paced the hall that day, I never thought that one day you would be running the hospital."
Such was his father's response when Dr. Tawfiq Nasser took administrative leadership of Jerusalem's Augusta Victoria Hospital in January. Neither did Tawfiq's mother envision her newborn son's bassinet being replaced by the desk of the new hospital administrator/chief of operations.
Tawfiq's birth on Aug. 19, 1964, at Augusta
Victoria was by his parents' choice--not only because they were
Palestinian but because it was the best hospital available to them.
They knew the value of the Lutheran World Federation's witness in that
institution of Christian service. Nasser's bassinet next to the
children of refugees born that same day was prelude to the calling and
commitment that brought him back to Augusta Victoria 33 years later.
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