The Week's Mission Focused On Saving Crushed Arms, Legs

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An Englewood doctor has returned home safely after spending a week in Haiti performing as many as 50 surgeries a day in a makeshift medical facility set up in the earthquake-ravaged country.

Joshua Hyman, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at New York- Presbyterian children's hospital, went to Haiti with Project Medishare to help set up a hospital under a series of tents on a field outside Port-au-Prince.

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The Week's Mission Focused On Saving Crushed Arms, Legs

Within a week, the facility doubled in size and was filled to capacity with some 300 patients, many of whom walked ...

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