Honduran Patients Teach Vein Surgeon of Quiet Endurance
David Calcagno knew he was heading south. But he didn’t realize that, in a medical sense, he was stepping into the Dark Ages.
On a medical mission to the Caribbean nation of Honduras this spring, the West Shore vascular surgeon encountered an array of open sores and a quiet endurance he came to admire.
Armed with a needle and a syringe, he was able to make lives less troubled.