Surgery

A team of doctors, nurses and dentists operated on 95 patients in just four days in Antigua, Guatemala as part of a medical mission.
Photographed on assignment for Portland Magazine.

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The team was comprised of both GYN and general surgeons, who operated on 95 patients in just four days.

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A husband thanks the surgeons after a successful operation on his wife.

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Post-op nurses take care of a patient after surgery.

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Doctors check up on patients the next day to see if there are any complications. Here they decide to send them home or keep them in the hospital for observation.
Photographed on assignment for Portland Magazine.

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Patients in the recovery room.
Photographed on assignment for Portland Magazine.

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