The Unit

There is a television series called "The Unit" which is about a team of specially recruited, highly trained, disciplined and dedicated soldiers who work in difficult circumstances to accomplish their mission.  I dream that the producers will travel to rural Haiti someday and see the real thing at work.  We have a number of Units at Visitation Clinic.  Our newest one is lead by Dr. Betsy Barcroft from Memphis who is an accomplished pediatric dentist and spends her free time treating disadvantaged children to places like Alaska, Hopi Indian reservations, rural Arkansas and now Haiti.  She and her incredibly efficient assistant Stacy have volunteered for ten days to work at our clinic with the goal of seeing every child they possibly can.  Each day, they start early, don't want to take lunch breaks and work until the last child is seen.  They spent weeks preparing for the trip, acquiring all the equipment, supplies and instruments, which they squeezed into their checked baggage.  Betsy even did her own fundraising for the project.  

It is unfortunate that our Unit's members share a major flaw which will keep them from becoming television action heroes.  They are just too darn nice to be believable and the children actually like them.