ReSurge International Videos

Nisa Burn Patient

Reasons For Hope

Usha walking after surgery

This is five-year-old Usha from Lyangling Nepal. At nine months of age, she was burned by a cooking fire. As a result Usha’s foot was severely burned, leading to a disabling contracture that pulled her foot up to be virtually fused with her shin. The burn contracture prevented her from walking and growing normally. This video is of Usha after the surgery she received by Interplast doctors. For the first time since her accident, she is able to walk normally and look forward to a fully functiona...

A Story Of Healing

In 1997, a film crew accompanied an Interplast volunteer surgical team to An Giang province in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. The filmmakers donated their services to document the team's experiences and produce A Story of Healing, which earned the 1997 Academy Award for best documentary short subject. The 28-minute film is followed by a short epilogue after the credits which follows-up on two patients 16 months after their surgeries.Ten years after its original release, A Story of Healing has been re...

Thank You Letter From An Interplast Patient

Another child wrote this letter to us, which Echo was nice enough to translate for me. The author says that even though she is about to go into surgery this afternoon, she can already feel our care. She recognizes that we are tired, and she thanks us for bringing smiles to all the kids.This is the kinda thing that just warms my heart. No one asked her to write this. We gave her paper and crayons to dull the boredom of waiting, because we felt bad that she had to wait all day for surgery. She c...

Makes Me Want To Operate All Day

We really can't thank our local volunteers and the China Population Welfare Foundation enough. Not only do they do everything that we need, but they anticipate what we might find useful, and make it happen. We have had zero no-shows this trip. None. On many of our surgical volunteer team trips, some children that are scheduled for a given time don't show up for whatever reason. Here, the CPWF recruited patients and local volunteer translators, paid to have the patients come in from near and fa...

Richard Siegal Reads a Letter About Fitness From...

The attention that was lavished on Hao, our little scribe, caused our wall o' art to proliferate. Most of it was coloring, but one was this piece of writing.This was especially great because Richard Siegel, one of the plastic surgeons, is always talking about running, diet, health, etc. He has had a hard time with the salt-heavy Chinese diet, and talks to all of us about fiber, vegetables, and the benefits of preventative medicine. He runs every day, and is thinking of writing a book about fi...

Richard Siegal Discussing Anesthesia

Richard loves to talk. Not in a bad way, he just loves to explain stuff. Here he is talking about what our anesthesiologists go through before each case. If you look closely, you can catch a chuckle from Fred about 2/3 of the way through.

Lee and Janet

Lee, the stomatology student and Janet, the pediatrician, discuss empathy and patient care.

Lee Discusses What He Learned From Interplast

Lee, a Chinese stomatology student, was with the Interplast surgical team for a week to learn new techniques in surgery and patient care. In this clip, he talks about what he learned as a result.