Noah Wyle

And then I got approached by this group called Doctors of the World that was an American-based version of Doctors Without Borders, which is French, that was doing frontline triage medicine in different war zones around the world. And I was really moved by – it's a purely volunteer organization.

Doctors, GPs from America would go and volunteer their time to go halfway around the world and practice wartime MASH medicine in very harrowing circumstances. Yeah.

Doctors, GPs from America would go and volunteer their time to go halfway around the world and practice wartime MASH medicine in very harrowing circumstances. Yeah.

Doctors, GPs from America would go and volunteer their time to go halfway around the world and practice wartime MASH medicine in very harrowing circumstances. Yeah.

And I had an opportunity to go during the war in Kosovo and be in a refugee camp in Macedonia and watch firsthand the heroic efforts of these doctors trying to treat this refugee population and came back really galvanized about helping this organization and ones like it do that kind of humanitarian aid thing.

And I had an opportunity to go during the war in Kosovo and be in a refugee camp in Macedonia and watch firsthand the heroic efforts of these doctors trying to treat this refugee population and came back really galvanized about helping this organization and ones like it do that kind of humanitarian aid thing.

And I had an opportunity to go during the war in Kosovo and be in a refugee camp in Macedonia and watch firsthand the heroic efforts of these doctors trying to treat this refugee population and came back really galvanized about helping this organization and ones like it do that kind of humanitarian aid thing.

And it was catalytic for us doing the storylines in Darfur and the Belgian Congo that we eventually did on the show.

And it was catalytic for us doing the storylines in Darfur and the Belgian Congo that we eventually did on the show.

And it was catalytic for us doing the storylines in Darfur and the Belgian Congo that we eventually did on the show.

Well, I wasn't, but it was sort of an all-hands-on-deck situation there, too. A bus would show up with maybe... 50, 60 refugees of varying ages, mostly young children and old women, because any man that was of fighting age was fighting. So a lot of people had been on the road for a really long time. They were wearing everything that they could carry.

Well, I wasn't, but it was sort of an all-hands-on-deck situation there, too. A bus would show up with maybe... 50, 60 refugees of varying ages, mostly young children and old women, because any man that was of fighting age was fighting. So a lot of people had been on the road for a really long time. They were wearing everything that they could carry.

Well, I wasn't, but it was sort of an all-hands-on-deck situation there, too. A bus would show up with maybe... 50, 60 refugees of varying ages, mostly young children and old women, because any man that was of fighting age was fighting. So a lot of people had been on the road for a really long time. They were wearing everything that they could carry.

So there was a lot of dehydration and a lot of malnutrition and a lot of fear, you know. And it began with taking people off buses and doing basic medical assessments. And then also there were lawyers and psychiatrists who would go and do interviews with the refugees and ask them about their experiences.

So there was a lot of dehydration and a lot of malnutrition and a lot of fear, you know. And it began with taking people off buses and doing basic medical assessments. And then also there were lawyers and psychiatrists who would go and do interviews with the refugees and ask them about their experiences.

So there was a lot of dehydration and a lot of malnutrition and a lot of fear, you know. And it began with taking people off buses and doing basic medical assessments. And then also there were lawyers and psychiatrists who would go and do interviews with the refugees and ask them about their experiences.

And those became testimonials that were later used in the war crimes tribunal trials with Milosevic. But I saw in that moment the sort of hand-in-hand medical psychological tandem treatment that was having an effect, both treating the body but also treating the psychological damage of the trauma.

And those became testimonials that were later used in the war crimes tribunal trials with Milosevic. But I saw in that moment the sort of hand-in-hand medical psychological tandem treatment that was having an effect, both treating the body but also treating the psychological damage of the trauma.

And those became testimonials that were later used in the war crimes tribunal trials with Milosevic. But I saw in that moment the sort of hand-in-hand medical psychological tandem treatment that was having an effect, both treating the body but also treating the psychological damage of the trauma.

And that led me to another organization called Human Rights Watch, which is a legal-based advocacy group that – Does exactly that kind of work. They go around and they take testimony to try and affect social change. So those two organizations kind of defined the 90s and early teens for me in terms of activism.