In native Peruvian culture, any disfigurement to the face is shameful.  This can impact a person for the rest of their life.  In our first clinic we had a young girl come in that had been in a motorcycle accident a few days before we arrived.  Her face was covered because of her injuries.  Some...
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Missions have always appealed to me, and since I started in the medical field, I have wanted to do medical missions.  Yet, I always had ten excuses why anything that came up never worked.  I couldn’t get time off of work, couldn’t afford time off of work, had kids to take care of, couldn’t afford...
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