Bill Frist blogs from Africa

“So is he going to run for president or what?”

He says he’s not, and his recent efforts to get more physicians involved in medical missions indicate that he’s decided to spend the rest of his career bringing healthcare to people who REALLY don’t have access to it…

(Unlike many Americans, who have an unprecedented level of access to healthcare in comparison to the REALLY poor and underserved, and an unprecendented lack of appreciation for what they have….)

Only those who’ve participated in a medical mission have a genuine understanding of just how awful conditions are for the sick or injured in vast areas of the world….

Dr. Frist gets it….if you’d like to get it a little better, go to the website for the World Surgical Foundation at http://www.worldsurgicalfoundation.org.

This group of surgeons, nurses and volunteers from central PA are in the Phillipines right now, serving hundreds of Filipinos on a tiny island who have little or no access to healthcare at ALL….and who suffer as a population from goiters due to lack of iodine in their diets, just as one example of how little they have. The doctors of the World Surgical Foundation are expected to do more than 50 goiters this week…not to mention cleft palates, hernia repairs, gynecologic surgery and more….300 surgeries are planned in seven days of operating….

Dr. Frist believes that American medicine is a way to help bring peace to the world and repair America’s image where it has been tarnished….and I can’t think of a better way than to bring healthcare to people who REALLY need it….