 I worked with Dr. Everett Hughes at USC Medical School, who one day mentioned to me, Doug, did you eat raw fish in Vietnam? When I got out of the bush with the Marines and back to the hospital in Da Nang, where I worked, the women who helped us clean the Quonset huts that we called operating rooms used to bring in nuoc mam. It was rice and raw fish, and I ate it. And Dr. Hughes said...