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Kaitlynn Lopes – West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine  Last March, 2022, I was fortunate enough to attend DOCARE’s medical mission to Iquitos, Peru. While I was excited and extremely grateful for the opportunity, I was still apprehensive about serving this community in such a new role (as a student doctor). However, as soon as…

Christopher Burns, DO, PGY-2 During the first two weeks of August, I had the incredible experience of travelling to the Peruvian Amazon with DOCARE and Michigan State University for a medical mission. To begin, I want to give a recap of our trip. We first landed in Lima, Peru and met up with the rest…

Codey Pedersen – EM Resident As an EM resident starting my second year of residency it is sometimes easy to forget the amazing job we get to do and how lucky we are to be afforded the opportunity to help people and practice medicine. However, my trip to Peru only made possible by DOCARE had…