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I never had any aspirations to do international service until I was in a part-time private practice with Dr. James E. McDonald (Jay), president of a very small NGO, FOCUS, which initially worked in Haiti but later dedicated its efforts in Abak, Nigeria. I had three children, was widowed, and so was not able to leave Chicago. Still, I was intrigued with the challenges of being an ophthalmologic volunteer internationally, and when the nest cleared, I took the first opportunity to join Jay and the FOCUS volunteers to spend a few weeks in Abak, Nigeria. There we were working very hard to see an enormous clinical volume.
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Miller, M.T. (2019). Recollections of My International Experiences. In: Olivier, M., Croteau-Chonka, C. (eds) Global Health and Volunteering Beyond Borders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98660-9_16
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