The other one that shocked me was a 25 year old woman whose boyfriend poured acid on her face and lost her left eye and had a burned skin. whent they chose him, his mother… who seemed my age became so emotional because for many of these people they can’t afford the proper medication so to have one of the best oculoplastic surgeons in the world agree to operate is truly a gift from the gods (to them). The doctors caught a look at his legs and he had a massive infection which made it impossible to open his eyes, he was actually in need of antibiotics and an operation … otherwise he may have died. It was too painful, he just cried and cried. The two that really got me was a two year old who came in with his mother and he couldn’t open his eyes. With over 70 people waiting to be evaluated, it was chaos, each person’s story was more and more tear jerking. We then proceeded to the opthalmologist’s office to begin evaluations. I actually started crying, it was too much to hold in. Parsa to evaluate them and they all seemed to pray to god that they would get operated on.
As we entered the facility there was a HUGE waiting room filled past capacity of people waiting for Dr. Each person staring us with deformed eyes, faces, but so much hope. I can’t illustrate the feeling, I don’t even think I captured it on camera (though always I was filming). When we arrived at the clinic we walked through the gates and already there were so many patients waiting for us, as we walked down the palm tree lined path so many kids running around and older people sitting on benches, they all stopped to stare at us, like we were gods coming to save their lives. The people are so warm and hospitable, they make you feel like your old friends even though you’ve just met.
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Of course I attached the GO Pro to the car most places we drive with some gaff tape and often forget it … but Bolivia seems incredibly safe so far. We started with a 6am wake up time… breakfast at the hotel at 6:30 where I had the sweet sweet fresh mango, then 7:00am in the car for an arrival at the hospital at 7:30. Today was an exceptional day but it was also a very sweaty, LONG, active, emotionally draining, physical, mental crazy day. I’m not normally one to give email updates or blogs on my trips but today was an exceptional day so I felt I just had to share while it was still fresh in my brain. It really portrays the reason why giving back is one of the most amazing things possible. She wrote this after her first day in Bolivia. I just received this email from Savannah our Videographer for our surgical mission trip to Bolivia. We created Surgery Theater to democratize medical education, and we feel that this mission’s work can be exponentiated by documenting every surgical procedure that is performed on these children and making it available as an educational tool for other doctors for free, so that the rest of the world can duplicate these results.”įor more information, please visit Surgery Theater Kami Parsa, co-founder and CEO of Surgery Theater stated “We believe the work that Children of War foundation is doing is very important in transforming these people’s lives. Why: When asked why this partnership between Surgery Theater and Children of War Foundation, Dr. The team will be operating in Amman on 30 patients, who include Syrian refugee war victims and underprivileged patients with severe deformities. The team includes Mark Urata, MD, DDS, Head of USC/ CHLA Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Jeffrey Hammoudeh, MD, DDS, Craniofacial Plastic Surgeon at CHLA, Andre Panossian, MD, Director of Vascular anomalies at CHLA Hospital, Kami Parsa, MD, an Oculoplastic Surgeon from Beverly Hills CA & co-founder of Surgery Theater, Andy Chang, MD, Pediatric Urologist at CHLA & Andrew Ordon, MD, plastic surgeon and host of the Doctors show. Six expert reconstructive surgeons from complementary fields will be performing life changing procedures. What/When: On May 31st to June 8th the team will travel from Los Angeles CA to Amman, Jordan.
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Who:, a start up from Los Angeles CA, which is an online medical publishing company launched in November 2011 with the goal of indexing every surgical procedure in the world, partners with Children of War Foundation a non-profit foundation based at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Doctor Andrew Ordon, co-host of the syndicated CBS TV show The Doctors. The company is set to release surgical videos to promote global medical education. Andrew Ordon of CBS The Doctors and Children of War Foundation on a mission to Jordan.
Los Angeles Startup Turns a Surgical Mission Trip into an Opportunity.
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