For many people, the Third World evokes images of poverty, malnourishment, overpopulation, unemployment, and inadequate hygiene and health care. Helping the people of developing countries seems a daunting task. S. Vincent Grasso, DO, a postdoctoral fellow in advanced minimally invasive surgery (MIS) and telemedicine at Yale University Department of Surgery, has devoted much of his time reaching out to patients and physicians in transitional countries to help improve their access to health care. As founder of AYUDAMOS Inc, a nonprofit organization composed of physicians, engineers, scientists, and other professionals, Dr Grasso has shown his commitment to providing humanitarian and medical services to underserved people in the United States and abroad.

In March 1996, Dr Grasso helped organize a medical-surgical trip to Cambodia (JAMA. . . [Full Text of this Article]