Mission to Heal: Sharing Medical Knowledge at Africa's Pole of Inaccessibility

Teaching and healing in a remote and precarious land

Some might ask why Dr. Glenn Geelhoed has the right to make wrenching life-and-death decisions about the impoverished people he treats. Simply, where he travels, there is no one else to make them. This is especially true in the Central African Republic, where the so-called government provides no security and no infrastructure. Mission to Heal is the story of several weeks in the CAR teaching, healing, and learning.

This is a tale of Wester...