Searching in the jungle for the Lost Art of Medicine

Dr Ben LaBot is founder of Floating Doctors.  See www.floatingdoctors.com.

The Floating Doctors Mission is to reduce the present and future burden of disease in the developing world, and to promote improvements in health care delivery worldwide.

OUR GOALS INCLUDE:

• Providing free acute and preventative health care services
• Facilitating community development & capacity initiatives
• Reducing child and maternal mortality
• Gathering clinical data for program and health landscape surveillance
• Improving access to specialist medical care in developing regions
• Promoting improvements in health care practice worldwide

The Floating Doctors are currently stationed in Las Sabanas, a remote mountain village in Venezuela