Angels in Medicine features physicians, nurses, physician assistants and other healthcare workers who reach people without the resources or opportunities for quality care, such as teens, the poor, the incarcerated, the elderly, or those living in poor or war-torn regions.
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The Multiple Sclerosis Quality of Life Project: Improving Access to Services in California
In 2000, it was the combined frustration of two health professionals, Dr. Lotte Marcus, a clinical psychologist, and Dr. Gerard Lehrer, a neurologist, and the frustrations of their patients and clients with MS, that provided the momentum. What evolved over the past 9 years is a vital organization that, rather than providing medical services, instead facilitates access to them for those with MS. . . . more
Women for World Health: Saving the World, One Patient at a Time
The nun brought the little orphan girl to the mission site in Ecuador. She had a cleft palate and needed surgery. After the successful surgery, the little girl returned three or four days later. She brought a picture of her class at school, with her in it. It was the only thing she had of herself, and she wanted the doctors to remember her by it. . . . more
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Travel Log: Dr. Randall Jacobs and Medical Teams International in Uganda
An eight-year-old Congolese refugee arrived with extensive burns. The rebel troops killed his father and then poured boiling water on him. Part of his ring finger was badly damaged from a bore hole pump. We were able to shorten his finger and close the wound. He was so incredibly brave and did not complain for a moment. He expressed his thanks in French as he left. He was an amazing child. . . . more
Our Chance International: Ghana 2009
What draws people to travel for almost 24 hours in order to work 12-hour days without compensation? "It just grounds me", said Jill Stoller, MD, a pediatrician from New Jersey and medical director for Our Chance International. . . . more
Orbis International: Eye Doctors Wing it to Volunteer in Developing Countries
Look, up in the sky, it's an eye hospital on a DC-10 airplane!
Its mission: to fly to poor parts of the world where eye care is desperately needed.
Read more here.
Amazon Promise: Sustainable Health for Peru
Patty Webster is not a medical professional. But one day, while working as a tour guide in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, she found herself using a traveler's sewing kit to close a wound on a boy from a local village. . . . more
Recent Angel Sightings
Little job from God sends doctor to Malawi *** Oakland prosthetist gives Iraqi teenager reason to laugh again *** MCGHealth doctor travels 2800 miles to save lives *** more
Local nurse received humanitarian award for aid to Rwanda *** Cleft Center blessed *** Hospital ship ends its mission of mercy *** more
Baylor's West African AIDS project perseveres *** Zeiter honored for healing eyes, charitable work *** Medical mission takes Air Force crews to Panama *** more
Giving the gift of a smile *** Medical Teams International helping with India floods *** Baylor expands its fight against AIDS to Tanzania *** Summer Stories - Daniel E. Rosan, Malawi *** Jet Airways lifts medicine, baby food for valley *** more
Addressing Disparities: Resources for Mental Health
If you, a loved one, or your patients experience mental illness, here are some organizations that try to fill in the gap by disseminating information, posting helpful resources, and advocating for proper treatment. more
Donkeys in the Courtyard
from the GAIA Vaccine Foundation blog
We were talking about what Brown University students found when they came to work in the clinic in Sikoro, this summer. Besides the women who were too poor to pay the five dollars to deliver their babies in the clinic, besides the children taking care of children, and besides the lack of clean water and food. . . and they made songs that they sang and the students captured those songs on film. They sang about the children begging on the sidewalks, about the poverty bringing HIV to Sikoroni. more
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"Love is a rain of diamonds in the mind. . ."
from Love is a Rain of Diamonds, by May Swenson
set to music by Vermont composer Gwyneth Walker as part of her Songs for Women's Voices