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• Local health care providers encounter resilience on mission

  February 3, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page V6 A reluctant traveler has a chance meeting with a doctor a half a world away and a medical mission is born. That’s the story behind Healing Hearts Northwest, a group …

• 16 heart patients get new lease on life

  March 16, 2010 in City on Page A5 KIGALI, Rwanda – Felicite Mukarubuga’s hands trembled as she took the pen and consent forms. The 22-year-old Rwandan woman listened while Dr. Hal Goldberg of Spokane Cardiology thoroughly explained a … 1

• Medical team taking expertise to Rwanda

  February 4, 2010 in City on Page A1 In their own way, a team of a 45 medical professionals from Spokane will embark on a mission of medical and moral repayment when they travel to Rwanda later this … 7

• Rwandan doctors seek new ideas

  April 29, 2009 in City on Page A8 Rwandans can now count Spokane doctors and health care workers among their extended family. Teams of surgeons, nurses and other medical professionals have traveled to the central African country during …

• Replacing genocide with hope

  April 12, 2009 in City on Page B1 The memories, good and bad, came flooding back to Carl and Teresa Wilkens last week upon their return to Rwanda, a verdant place they once called home before the streets …

• Efforts against genocide garner acclaim

  February 7, 2009 in City on Page A8 A Spokane professor and author of a book on the psychology of genocide is one of 20 persons nationwide to receive a fellowship to build local awareness of global atrocities. …