title: Chicken feet: Part one.
abstract: Propulsion, as defined in Webster's Dictionary, is a giving of forward motion or urging onward. For the last 8 days, however, I have felt propelled into history-reversed to a time and place of cruder things-and if I can keep from crying, I would like to tell you of an incredible journey that I was privileged to take. A journey of awareness of how lucky I am to live in the United States of America. A journey of learning respect for a people struggling against odds that I can hardly imagine. A journey of great emotional upheaval for me, from which I am not sure I will ever recover.
authors.affiliation: Medical College of Virginia Hospitals, Richmond, VA, USA.
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Kessel
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006166:Guatemala; D006801:Humans; D008493:Medical Missions; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D016528:Postanesthesia Nursing; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000451:nursing*