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The first time Mark D. Dressner, M.D., joined a group of medical colleagues on a mission trip to Honduras in the early 1990s, he made house calls an hour and a half away from the group's base camp on horseback.
"I had never ridden a horse before, so that was an experience," recalled Dr. Dressner, who is the inpatient director of the family medicine residency program at Memorial Hospital in Long Beach, Calif.
"We saw one patient with ascites and one with congestive heart failure. We had enough Lasix for only one and had to make an ethical choice. We also provided seizure medications to a mom who would seize and drop her baby in the process," he said.
...Source: HighBeam Research, Physicians share the rewards of volunteering.(THE REST OF YOUR LIFE)