Doctor in disaster area among TIME's 100 influential people

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Takeshi Kanno, a 31-year-old doctor who was on duty at a public hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, when a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the town on March 11, 2011. TIME magazine on April 21, 2011, named the doctor in its list of this year's 100 most influential people in the world. Kanno helped move patients at his hospital to the highest floor immediately after hearing the tsunami alert and over the next two days stayed with them until the last patient had been rescued.

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