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Balancing Our Mission

We continue to plug away. Balancing our mission of winding down the surgical practice, yet taking care of the present Orthopaedic needs which still need expertise which can be uniquely handled at Double Harvest.  We had another 12 hour OR day today, which I know pales in comparison to what the earlier groups had to [...]

Doing The Best We Can

Team 8 Monday was a very busy and difficult day with a very busy clinic and surgery schedule.   At 8 am the benches and waiting areas were overflowing with patients waiting to be seen.   Surgically we completed skin grafts on a young child and did 5 other cases mainly involving infected hardware.  We admitted 2 more infected hardware [...]

Haiti kids have great smiles

Saturday and Sunday were both busy days for us.  We have a full census with 3 patients overflowed into the garage.  I’m very proud of everyones efforts, and we do believe that we are making a difference. Some of the problems have been quite difficult to manage, however, with several infected nonunions and a few [...]