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NORTH DAKOTA MEDICINE
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES
CHARLES E. KUPCHELLA, President, University of North Dakota
H. DAVID WILSON, Vice President for Health Affairs
Dean, School of Medicine and Health Sciences
WRITERS Pamela Knudson, Amanda Scurry
CONTRIBUTORS Blanche Abdallah, Wendy Opsahl
GRAPHIC DESIGN John Lee, Victoria Swift
PHOTOGRAPHY Chuck Kimmerle, Richard Larson, Wanda Weber
COVER ART John Lee
www.ndmedicine.org
DESIGN Eric Walter
CONTENT Amanda Scurry
NORTH DAKOTA MEDICINE (ISSN 0888-1456; USPS 077-680) is published five times a year (April, July, September, December, February) by the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Room 1000, 501 N. Columbia Road Stop 9037, Grand Forks, ND 58202-9037.
Periodical postage paid at Grand Forks ND.
Printed at Fine Print Inc., Grand Forks, ND.
All articles published in NORTH DAKOTA MEDICINE, excluding photographs and copy concerning patients, can be reproduced without prior permission from the editor.
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Carving Health from Soap
It is as about as easy as it can get. Go to the store and buy a pack of soap bars and a pack of washcloths. Sit down at your kitchen table and put one bar of soap and one wash cloth in a resalable plastic baggie and bring them into work the next day.
The faculty, staff and students at the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences contributed nearly 1000 pounds of soap and washcloths for the students and faculty of the UND medical school’s Physician Assistant program to take with them to their medical missions to Haiti.
It may seem like nothing, but that bar of soap can mean life or death to a Haitian.
“That bar of soap is worth as much to them as a bar of gold,” said Mary Ann Laxen (FNP/PA ’91), associate professor and director of the UND Physician Assistant Program.
The soap and washcloth kits are given to expecting and new mothers who come to the Haitian Health Foundation’s clinics ensuring that a midwife can wash her hands before assisting with delivery and a new baby can stay clean and disease free.
Organizations like the Haitian Health Foundation survive on even the smallest contributions. Every bar of soap helps.
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