Now I stand at the helm of the Human Genome Project, an audacious effort to determine the sequence of the entire human blueprint and the hundred thousand genes that make us what we are. We expect to have this done by year 2005. This is the most important scientific effort that humankind has ever undertaken.
And yet there are times--and you will experience this, too--when I'm restless, when there seems that there must be something that I'm called to do. And twice over the last four years, I've taken three or four weeks and gone off to Nigeria to work in a small jungle hospital.
Now I went full of enthusiasm. Then I began to wonder, "What am I doing here?" I knew that although I might be able to help a particular patient, get them better over some terrible disease, they would go out again into an environment where ...
