An article with Dr Susanna Maybin, former medical co-ordinator of the SCF Ban Napho camp for dispaced Lao in Northeast Thailand, outlining the development of 'future oriented' medical services for refugees, to assist them prior to and following repatriation. Published in "Back to a Future? Voluntary repatriation of Indochinese refugess and displaced persons from Thailand" CCSDPT 1990.