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Not long after finishing her mission
ferent choices as a wife and mother of
in Iraq, Dr. Fink returned to Bosnia.
two. "I met Sheri at a swim club when
She went earlier this month to mark
we were in different junior high
the eighth anniversary of the fall of
schools, and we've been close ever since.
Srebrenica and the massacre of 8,000
"I'll always remember the fun we had
Muslims. She attended a ceremony to
going to Florida on spring break when
bury 280 men and boys recently iden-
we were seniors in high school. Sheri has
tified, and she was with doctors who
been very loyal, and we have great times
had become the subject of her book.
just talking about what's been important
"Ilijaz Pilav, a physician-hero I wrote to us. I respect all that she has done."
about, invited all of the doctors who
As Dr. Fink has taken on dangerous
had worked in the Srebrenica hospital
assignments to provide care for desper-
for the ceremony, and that included
ate people, she has been the subject of
people from Doctors Without
national news reports on television.
Borders, who also are in the book,"
Amid the rush of her projects, she takes
Dr. Fink says. "It was very emotional
time to evaluate her experiences but is
to be there and a real honor to go
not sure what she will take on next as a
back to the hospital with them.
long-term commitment.
"The hospital has been
frozen in time. The equip-
ment has been left right where
it was in 1995. Even the med-
ical scrubs that the doctors
wore are still there littering
the floor. Some of the doctors
found notes that they them-
selves had written. As far as I
know, there aren't any plans to
renovate."
Dr. Fink says she avoids
stress in her dangerous work by
not dwelling on decisions after
they are made. Dr. Fink's
grandmother, Mary Fink, has
more difficulty dealing with
the stress of knowing about the
travels to war zones. A resident
of the Meer Jewish Apartments
in West Bloomfield and an
Eight-Over-80 senior-adult
honoree for her volunteer
work, Mary Fink tries to keep
those worries to herself.
Clockwise from lower left: Dr. Sheri Fink with her
"Everybody in the building
father,
Herschel Fink; mother, Annette Fink; brother,
knows Sheri because she stays
Marc
Fink;
and grandmother-, Mary Fink.
with me and has dinner here
when she's visiting the area,"
says Mary Fink, who remem-
bers reading to Sheri and Sheri's broth-
"What's impressed me most through
er, Marc, when they were very young.
my work has been how people go on
"Sheri's always been very loving and
with their lives," she says. "When I
caring and takes things in her stride.
went back to Srebrenica, it was amazing
I'm very proud of her, and I pray for
that Muslims who survived the worst
her every day."
massacre in Europe in 50 years have
During the years that Dr. Fink
moved back to the town where that
worked on her book, she was based in
happened and where some of the peo-
New York City and enjoyed taking
ple who committed those crimes are
breaks by going to theater and attend-
still living.
ing concerts. Her dad says that she's
"Some of them are not doing well,
very eclectic in her leisure interests and
but they're optimistic. I'm also opti-
likes playing the piano, dancing and
mistic in many ways," Dr. Fink says.
going to parties.
"I'm still, of course, very upset when
Amy Vine, a longtime friend, also
I see evidence of war crimes, horrible
knows Fink's lighter side.
atrocities and killings. But I still have
"I think that the life Sheri has chosen
hope in humanity —although I am
is right because she's so excited about
much more realistic than when I start-
it," says Vine, who has made very dif-
ed all this." 0