Susan Downey Teaching Furlow Method of Cleft Repair

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Portoviejo, Ecuador - Seth Mazow, Interplast staff:  The night we arrived in Portoviejo, the team (plastic surgeon Susan Downey, anesthesiologist Scott Brown, nurse practitioner Laura Ohara and a dozen of Jorge Palacios’s residents and colleagues) went to the hospital to evaluate the patients and facilities. The surgeons and nurses saw the patients for about 45 minutes, but Scott and the anesthesiologists spent much longer examining the monitors. As a result, we were waiting outside for a while. Susan took advantage of the opportunity and started teaching Wilmer about the Furlow method of cleft repair.