Unless you already have lived/worked in a place where every day you have seen with your own eyes and felt with your heart the gap between 'socioeconomically privileged' and 'socioeconomically lacking,' go on at least one mission.  Go as early as possible.


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    https://hospitalescuela.com/


    the Massachusetts General Hospital of Honduras and the only hospital with interventional radiology in the country

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    hospital front entrance with armed guards

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    hospital security

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    emergency room entrance

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    emergency department waiting 'room'

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    ED waiting 'room' at night

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    hospital main lobby

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    main lobby patient registration and payment

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    foyer for main elevators

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    gurneys and wheelchairs

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    medical floor family waiting space

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    typical medical floor room

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    typical surgical floor room

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    OR recovery room

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    pediatric room


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    hospital ER inside

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    hospital pharmacy

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    clinic-ER ... Laboratorio Clínico el Buen Samaritano in the town of Santa Maria del Real

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    clinic pharmacy

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    clinic radiology x-ray

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    school-clinic in La Libertad

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    school-clinic waiting-to-be-seen line

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    school-clinic parking lot

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    house of town pastor

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    main sink at the house

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    house kitchen

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    old woman bringing water

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    young woman bringing water

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    nurses and children singing together

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Use that time to discern how to make a mission of your life.


Experience how some people who lack material wealth possess amazing psychological wealth.



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video courtesy of Laura Escobar, MD