When plastic surgeon Geoff Williams saves a face, he also saves a life. Training with Taiwanese mentors on a medical mission in Vietnam, he was astounded by the crowd that greeted them in one village: 200 mothers 专题 一 │ 专题预测 waiting with their children, all with cleft(裂缝) lips or palates. The
women mobbed him, pleading for help, as he entered the local hospital. “It was as if they were in a sinking ship,” Williams recalls, “and we were a lifeboat passing by!”
The surgeons could operate on only 25 to 30 children during their three-day stay. The rest had to be turned away,“ It was devastating,” Williams says quietly. When his plane left Vietnam, he vowed to go back. 专题 一 │ 专题预测 Williams never planned to become a worldwide volunteer surgeon.“ I thought I’d help these children for a couple of years and get it out of my system.” But that was five years ago. Williams, 53, now works fulltime correcting facial deformities in 12 countries, including Mexico, Tanzania, Pakistan, India, the Philippines. He has performed almost 1,000 operations since he started his International Children’s Surgical Foundation and he has no plans to stop. 专题 一 │ 专题预测
Williams could be earning more than $1 million a year doing tummy tucks, face-lifts, and breast enlargements in the United States. A friend told him he was throwing away his career, that he can’t change the world. But he’s never been motivated by money. When he earned $200,000 a year as a professor at a teaching hospital in Galveston, Texas, Williams lived in an apartment that cost $250 a month. He squirreled away most of his paycheck and now lives off his savings. Because he travels most of the time and is single he stays with his parents in Boise, Idaho, between missions (and insists on paying them $10 a day).
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