Abstract
In September 2005, I departed for an 8-week mission in Libe-ria with Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), a multinational medical humanitarian organization (Figure (Figure11). Liberia has suffered through nearly 20 years of civil wars and has little infrastructural or health care resources. Here I describe MSF and Liberia, the mission site, the practice of anesthesia, and the patients we treated. Figure 1 The author with Renita on the day of her discharge. Renita was a 9-year-old patient who came in with typhoid and intestinal rupture. She spent 4 months in the hospital and had numerous surgical procedures before she recovered enough to return home.
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