What True Faith & Love Looks Like!
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »I am marveling at Amy Fish's INMED experience providing physical therapy to crippled children at the CURE Hospital in Dominican Republic. Amy discovered a fact of "the upside down Kingdom." While she principally came to help and to teach, "The Dominican people themselves so ...
Thriving On Encouraging Words
Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Last night, October 29, 2009, I was honored on behalf of INMED to receive the World Citizen of the Year award from Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser and the International Relationship Council. This is a remarkable acknowledgement of the devotion of ...
INMED & Kansas City University of Medicine & Biosciences (KCUMB)
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »This morning I'm energized after conversing with Rich Holt and Michael Seward of Kansas City University of Medicine & Biosciences (KCUMB). They are rapidly leading their university forward toward offering global health training, and the response of students is already ...
INMED & the United Nations?
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »I am astounded to learn that INMED is this year's recipient of the Kansas City Citizen of the World 2009 Award, presented by the United Nations Association of Kansas City. The city mayor and United Nations Under-Secretary-General will make the presentation ...
The Men of INMED
Monday, October 26th, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »I am feeling extremely thankful for INMED's full-time staff team! Micah Flint joined me 4 years ago, and today leads our Continuing Education events. Skylar Rolf came on 2 years ago, and today heads up our Certificate programs in international medicine, ...
Broken Zambian Children Smiling Again
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »I am touched over Kaylene Chlopek's INMED experience with Dr. Ken Johnson at Choma General Hospital in Zambia: "I was struck with severity of the injuries suffered by the children. Many had fallen out of trees and broken bones. My first week at ...
Something VERY GOOD in South Africa
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »I am feeling warm hearted reading Kirk Bodach account from Mseleni Hospital in South Africa: "On my last day working in the outpatient clinic the patient I was seeing said that he had been watching me. He said that I had done ...
INMED Training Nationals To Care For Their Own
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »I am so delighted that INMED is now offering training opportunities for national healthcare providers in their own nations!! Jeff DeGraffenreid, INMED's Exec VP is off to Chengdo, western China to teach disaster management to an audience of Chinese healthcare leaders. ...
Do The Math. Ben Is Extraordinary!
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »I talked with Ben Cavilla at the Lubango Evangelical Medical Center in Angola, southern Africa... "I've lost three more patients today. One had terminal AIDS. Another had a liter of puss in her belly. And the third was a young child with ...
Global Health Students Asking “How soon?!?”
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Today Skylar Rolf, INMED COO, and I talked with Global Health students at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and Truman State University. Their passion to assist the poorest of the poor is AmAZinG!!! Their most common question is "How soon can I put ...