The following excerpt is from a May 7, 2010 article published by The Province. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
When most of us plan for time off work during late fall or winter and yearn for warm tropical breezes, we look for sandy beaches in Hawaii, the Caribbean or Mexico.
But for a small Surrey-based group of medical professionals, taking time off work for fun in the sun is entirely different. Sure, they also experience warm tropical breezes — but they’re worlds away from sun-baked beaches. Instead, these folks are spending their “vacations” performing surgery 10 hours per day in developing countries such as Guatemala.
As members of the non-profit group Health for Humanity, they pay all their own expenses — airfare, accommodation and meals — to take part in the society’s annual two-week mission to the Central American country and periodically to participate in similar missions elsewhere such as the Philippines.
A typical Health for Humanity team consists of five anesthetists…
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