Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to D F Kessel.
This article is the second part of the story of a trip taken by the author to Guatemala, Central America in 1996. It was a part of Operation Kids, which is sponsored by the Christian Children's Fund in Richmond, VA. The author and her fellow medical staff represented the Plastic Surgery Division of the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals.
Propulsion, as defined in Webster's Dictionary, is a giving of forward motion or urging onward. For the last 8 days, however, I have felt propelled into history-reversed to a time and place of cruder things-and if I can keep from crying, I would like to tell you of an incredible journey that I was privileged to take. A journey of awareness of how lucky I am to live in the United States of America. A journey of learning respect for a people struggling against odds that I can hardly imagine. A journey of great emotional upheaval for me, from which I am not sure I will ever recover.