Third former
takes part in
extraordinary
medical mission
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eaton Johnson ’11 and his father, Dr. James
L. “Bo” Johnson II, went to Guayaquil,
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Ecuador, the week of June 9 on a humanitar-
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ian healthcare mission—and it was a trip, Dr.
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Johnson says, that will certainly “impact Keaton’s
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D
view of the world.” OF
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The two worked in a military hospital with a
group consisting of two general surgeons, a urologist,
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three French phlebologists, a podiatrist, a colorectal
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surgeon, a family doctor, three anesthesiologists
PHOT
and an audiologist. There were also numerous inter- When Dr. Johnson inquired why she was so
preters, aids and helpers. At 14, Keaton was the concerned, she told him that she could not afford
youngest member of the team. anything to go wrong. She was the sole provider for
Dr. Johnson is a general surgeon and his role was her six grandchildren and she washed other peoples’
to perform gallbladder surgeries, hernia repairs and clothes to make just enough money for the kids to
vein treatments. eat. The kids’ parents were all out trying to find work
Keaton helped by cleaning surgical instruments but were unable to.
in between cases, taking patients to the floor, running “This touched Keaton’s heart as well as mine,” Dr.
errands for the nurses, making rounds on the floor Johnson says. “Ultimately her surgery went well and
with his father twice a day, and assisting the surgical she went home in good condition.”
team by keeping track of the patient needs. He also The French that Keaton took at SG apparently
assisted in surgery. helped when interacting with the French doctors and by
The surgery pictured here was a femoral hernia the end of the journey he also was picking up Spanish.
repair in a 69-year-old Ecuadorian woman. Another high point of the trip: Before they went,
Keaton Johnson
assists his father
“Her story is very touching as were most of the the team of doctors received a grant for hearing aids
during a femoral
patients,” recalls Dr. Johnson. “She grabbed my hands and was able to fit 96 children with the devices.
hernia repair in a
just before her surgery and prayed that God would “Some were in their teens and heard for the first
69-year-old
guide them and she began to cry.” time,” Dr. Johnson reports. Ecuadorian woman.
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