Answered prayers for medical brigade in Honduras

Treating patients in a Third World country is challenging when equipment is unavailable, outdated or malfunctioning. It helps when the right equipment seemingly appears miraculously.

Early on a volunteer medical brigade's mission trip to Honduras in 2014, Dr. Mario Castro, a pulmonologist at Washington University and leader of the brigade, saw an elderly man who was thought to have lung cancer and appeared to be dying. He had a cough, significant weakness and weight loss. A chest X-ray showed a mass in his right lung, and his condition didn't respond to antibiotics.

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