Bac Thai is a remote province several hours north of Hanoi, Vietnam right on the border with China.I traveled there on a two-week medical mission at a small hospital in Thai Nguyen. It was a very intense, unforgetable experience.
It was here, in a tiny, rural village in Northern Vietnam that I had an epiphany – where I came up with the idea of empowering local doctors and hospitals instead of sending American volunteers on 2-week medical missions.
As we drove north from Hanoi, we passed by dozens of cemeteries, filled with endless rows of what I assumed were anonymous graves.
