When we scheduled our Spring 2009 field trip, we weren’t sure if we could actually treat in Bali—all depended on the paperwork going through. So we decided to tack on another destination: Nepal. Well, it’s sort of nearby, as continents go…

We were invited to go there by a patient of Frank’s who is from a small mountain village in Mustang. The plan is to divide up into two teams. One will work in the Kathmandu Valley area, where there is huge need and great poverty. Populations of Tibetan refugees, Hindu and Muslim Nepali are all here, with no regular healthcare. The second team will trek up into Mustang. There we will work out of small villages—treating both the residents of these villages as well as many others who will trek down from other, even more remote locations.

A very ambitious plan in just one week!