Weapon of Foreign Policy

One has a very rich dealing when one does something for another person. Almost all programs in international humanitarian surgery are motivated by PSYCHIC INCOME. In the future this type of program will be the best weapon of foreign policy.

Nothing Changes a Culture like a Great Result

Honduran Boy who lost his penis  San Pedro Sula, Honduras 2:30PM March 22nd 1974 The resident was Roland Minami and 5 others. [2] The patient came to the Interplast Honduras clinic and presented with the chief complaint that he had lost his penis. He seemed like a regular 17 year old boy. He did not …

Re-Entering the Box: Surgery, Society, and Recovery

We saw the patient again on three occasions -6 weeks and 6months and 6 years after surgery. Of course we memorialized with photography. We found out that after a three-year interval she had rehabilitated. She had gone to stenography school, learned a trade, had had a job since the surgery, and already had three children. This was a wonderful case and I was so happy.

San Pedro Sula

San Pedro Sula, Honduras, the kidnap and violence capital of the world. What in the hell do you want to do in Honduras, DON? It’s dangerous, you don’t know the culture you don’t know the language, your job is up here in the center of learning, the center of skill and knowledge in your chosen …

Politics Can Be Your Friend, Doctor Part II

Let me talk first about the person - a new friend, albeit in a straight business milieu in this exact situation, whom you form a bond with, not between two persons but among many persons present, which union easily results in action or “help.”