Trip to Haiti changes lives of patients and volunteers.

I n February of this year, a dozen volunteers from St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center, Pueblo, CO, along with a handful of others from the community, left family and modern comforts to bring healing to suffering people in Gonaives, Haiti, a port city of 200,000 some 110 kilometers north of Port Au Prince. The trip was coordinated in part by James Smith, MD, a surgeon at St. Mary-Corwin. This was not Smith's first experience of Haiti. He had kept a diary during a 2005 visit. Smith: In Haiti for my second medical mission trip to a church and school that is affiliated with my own church in Pueblo. We, the Americans, feel hopelessness. The Haitians around us, on the other hand, seem to be over-