# Overbrook Hospital

Chiang Rai, Thailand

Chiang Rai Province's first private hospital, founded in 1903 by the Canadian Presbyterian missionary doctor William A. Briggs. Named for a Pennsylvania church that funded it, it brought modern medicine to a remote frontier town of a few hundred people.

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Coordinates: 19.9103, 99.8296

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