[Humanitarian surgical mission. Coming home].

Annales de chirurgie plastique et esthetique 2004 Vol.49(3) p. 320-7

Micheau P

Abstract

Every mission questions our motivation, our skills, and our efficiency through the discovery of a disconcerting world. Three points should be considered to keep a lucid commitment: to evaluate what we have done, which requires modesty; to testify to the courage, the beauty, the violence we have seen; to seek a meaning to the mission beyond the surgical frame: questioning our selves; isn't there a mission going farther the mission?

MeSH Terms

Altruism; Asia, Southeastern; Attitude of Health Personnel; Efficiency, Organizational; Forecasting; France; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Humans; International Educational Exchange; Medical Missions; Motivation; Organizational Objectives; Philosophy, Medical; Program Evaluation; Surgery, Plastic