Recap My friend and assistant in Bolivia, Elias has told me many stories of his childhood and life growing up in his village. I had always wanted to go there and visit, so when our first patient, Agustin, turned out to be from that village, I figured this would be a good time to go. […]
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About seven hours away from our clinic in Cochabamba lies a village in the rugged terrain of the Bolivian highlands, or “altiplano”, where Agustin calls home. Twenty years ago, his village was engaged in a war with a neighboring village, and he was shot in the leg. Since there were no hospitals, clinics, or for
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If you are considered to have “two left feet” then you have somewhat of a problem. That saying was true for us recently, although not in the sense that you would think, but we most definitely had a foot problem. In Bolivia, we rely heavily on donated used parts and materials from prosthetic clinics in
