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This blog aims to capture the ups and downs, the golden years, the friendships forged, the lives transformed, the mistakes made and the lessons learned over seven decades of a remarkable life and career. These are more than just stories; together, they embody the development of a philosophy shared by a group of like-minded people.Follow Me on Twitter
- Dr. Sherry Wren, brilliant surgeon and professor, discussing the merits and mistakes of the 'parachute trip' http://t.co/6CIqo4cemr 2 days ago
- Meeting with Dr. Bishal Karki of Nepal. Coincidence and collaboration breeds a new opportunity for our students http://t.co/KftPSA44Zm 2 days ago
- Dr. Mohammad Jawad, Oscar winner for the short film on his work w/ acid burns on women, discussing burns w/ our class http://t.co/rxpFgNZm9G 1 week ago
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Recent Posts
- Eugenio Lara: Bag on the Head
- My Beautiful Wife’s Version of The Interplast Adventure
- Pancho’s Story
- Nuns and Kidnapping
- Body Image 102: The Male Body Image
- Part 2: Body Image in excess – The Sense of Entitlement
- Body Image 101: The 50% Factor
- The Stanford Super Residency
- 4th Generation of International Humanitarian Surgery
- Mobile Surgery
- The Beginning: Interplast and Project Piaxtla
- Two Vignettes: “The Sin of Greed – My First Week in Medical School” and “Don, It’s Time You Got a Job”
- This Week: User Feedback Survey
- The Most Important Thing: Cancer, Survival, and Life Two
- The Clair Elgin Story
- Mission to Jacaltenango
- Rescue of an American Girl in Mexicali
- RAC
- The Glory Years: The First 5-Year Trip Report (1968-1973)
- The Perfect Smile
My Beautiful Wife’s Version of The Interplast Adventure
My involvement in Interplast started in our first purchased home in Palo Alto on Starr King Circle, a three bedroom 2 bath Eichler. A perfect fit for us for three years and then things changed in 1967. Don went to Culiacan, Sinaloa. Our house opened to many house guests, 2 nurses stayed with us for … Read more
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Pancho’s Story
I’ll tell you the story of Pancho, my friend who was faithful and strong and achieved a good end. His last name was Martinez and he hailed from Jalisco, Mexico. He had never caught good break until he met Interplast, in the person of social worker Dr. Amy Laden. According to his culture, Pancho was … Read more
Filed under Body Image, Countries, Humanitarianism, Mexico, Principles/Theory, STORIES · Tagged with bilateral cleft lip, body image, cleft lip, Ecstasy, immigration, Int'l Humanitarian Surgery, Interplast, labor unions, Mexico, personal, plastic surgery
Nuns and Kidnapping
When I arrived in Ecuador in 1977, a crisis had swept the nation. A young industrialist, Jose Antonio Briz López, 35, president of industrial Pichincha, was kidnapped by socialist revolutionaries who demanded a ransom of 5 million Sucres (USD $600,000) – a huge sum at the time. Crises involving a ransom thrive on both money … Read more
Filed under Ecuador, STORIES · Tagged with culture, Ecuador, friends, international, International Politics, Interplast, Kidnapping, Nuns, Physicians for Peace theory, Rodas
Body Image 102: The Male Body Image
Body Image is what we think other people think of us. For a professional athlete, this gauge is the number of dollars on the paycheck. This is more important to the athlete thinking of what other people think of himself than earn-run average, RBIs and number of home runs. Body image is a picture of … Read more
Filed under Body Image, STORIES, Uncategorized
Part 2: Body Image in excess – The Sense of Entitlement
Featured image above: Dr. Luis Bueso Larios with mother and young patient Part 2, Body Image 101: Entitlement, Stakeholder, miracle of plastic surgery Body Image when over-praised I, and we, the audience, have often wondered what the outcome of Tomas Dominguez has been over the last decade or two. Hypothetically, let’s say you help somebody … Read more
Filed under Body Image, STORIES · Tagged with barry zito, body image, dr. larios bueso, entitlement, ernie kaplan, jim harbaugh, non-verbalized agenda, phil helmuth, rosaria villegas
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