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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.
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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

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

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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

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

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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

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