Mongolia :: September 2014

Kirk and I are en route home from Mongolia, where we conducted a pediatric cardiac catheterization mission with a team of seven:  two cardiologists (Kirk and Dr. Mary Porisch), two anesthesiologists (me and Dr. Maria Garcia), a pediatric ICU doctor (Dr. Barbara Jo...

Kurdistan, Iraq :: November 2013

We didn’t go to Fallujah, Iraq this week.  We were supposed to.  This would have been Kirk’s fifth trip, my (Kim’s) fourth, and our team’s fourth to do cardiac caths there.  Our team this time was made up of Kirk, me, pediatric cardiac interventionalist Allison...

Mongolia :: September 2013

I (Kim) choked on a piece of meat at our Friday night team dinner thrown in our honor by our Mongolian colleagues celebrating the end of our week of pediatric cardiac catheterizations and surgeries in Ulaanbaatar.  Seriously.  Kirk had to do the Heimlich maneuver. ...

Trusting in Providence

During a recent screening in the Kurdish area of Iraq I had an interaction with a family that made me reflect on my faith in Providence.   A small team of us went to the Fountain of Love in Shoresh, Kurdistan Iraq to screen children for heart defects.  Shoresh is...

Fallujah, Iraq::April 2013

​A team of five of us (me (Kim Milhoan), Kirk Milhoan, Mary Porisch, Minnette Son, and Molly King) just left Iraq.  Excluding trips to Kurdistan, Iraq, which I refer to as “Iraq for beginners,” this was our third team trip to “Iraq Proper” to perform pediatric heart...

Fallujah, Iraq::January 2013

Five of us (Kirk, me, pediatric interventional cardiologist Mary Porisch, pediatric intensivist Minnette Son, and pediatric nurse practitioner Nelia Soares) are en route home from Fallujah, Iraq.  Kirk, Mary, Minnette, pediatric nurse practitioner Molly King, and...

Nepal :: November 2012

  “Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness And his upper rooms without justice, Who uses his neighbor’s services without pay And does not give him his wages.  Who says, ‘I will build myself a roomy house With spacious upper rooms, And cut out its...

Mongolia::September 2012

I (Kim) always write these updates on the way home from our trips.  I didn’t want to write the one I wrote coming home from Fallujah, Iraq (our last trip).  I don’t want to write this one either.  That’s because, for me, this trip was not wrapped up in a tidy little...