We are two 50+ year-old family physicians from Salinas, California grateful for the opportunity to
spend a month in Guadalupe, Ecuador this August. Danielle works 1/2
time for a small local private practice, caring for patients of all ages
with all kinds of problems. Marc works for our County hospital,
Natividad Medical Center, seeing patients, teaching in the family
medicine residency program, and chairing the hospital's ethics
committee. We have three adult children
who are all busy with their own lives and careers: Gabriela, a lawyer
by training who does health care policy work; Dominique, who will be
starting her first "real" job doing research work after obtaining
Masters degrees in education and social science evaluation; and Matthew,
a second-year medical student.
Outside of work, we are active parishioners at St. Joseph's Church in the town of Spreckels, just outside Salinas, where Marc grew up. Danielle is active with the student exchange organization, AFS. We have hosted students in our home five times over the years. Marc helps staff a small homeless clinic for two hours a week, and he dabbles at academia by working on projects in clinical ethics.
A very long time ago, we considered mission work…and then we had a family, worked a couple of years for the Indian Health Service here in the U.S., and put the idea of international mission and service to our common global family on hold. Until now :)
