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Japan turned out to be a mind expanding experience for the young Air Force doctor. He found a country with many admirable features—virtually no crime, safe and comfortable in its crowdedness. “ People didn’t lock cars, and if you lost something, no one would touch it. I left a video camera in the huge Tbkyo Rail Station. Seven hours later, I found it exactly where I had left it,” remembered McCue
He also remembers humorously that he felt like an American Frankenstein in Japan. He was constantly an object of curiosity. “There were not many 6’4” white men walking around Hokkaido Island. People would gawk and want to have their pictures taken with me,” smiled McCue. He thought it was a good experience to be viewed as the exotic specimen.
As a doctor, however, he joined the realm of the gods. Japanese doctors are treated with great awe and respect by their patients. Japanese doctors are never questioned and would see as many as eighty patients in a day, whereas he would see twenty or thirty Americans on the base. While the respect in which doctors are held may be enviable, McCue also believes that it is a positive trend that the old “ don’t question the doctor” attitude in this country has changed. McCue
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