A doctor's tour on the Eniwetok atoll

The author spent 6 months in the Marshall Islands as a part of the Eniwetok Atoll cleanup project. The medical facility was a simple, semipermanent structure in an isolated, tropical setting, and modern medical technology was both limited and remote. The major problems encountered were, in decreasing order of frequency: trauma, skin disorders, depression and alcohol abuse, infectious disease, and heat stress. Preventive medicine, milieu therapy, and a simply stocked drug cabinet were the mainstay of our medical care. Several suggestions are made as to avoiding and treating problems in similar situations.