The Behrhorst Foundation at 25 Years

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IN 1962 Carroll Behrhorst, M.D., left family practice in Kansas and moved to Guatemala to open a small clinic offering medical services to the local Indian population. He settled in Chimaltenango, a bustling market town located in the heart of the rugged western highlands. Since then his single-bed examining room has evolved into a major Guatemalan institution, the Behrhorst Development Foundation, that provides health services to the country's neglected rural poor.1 During 1984 and 1985, I spent five months at the Behrhorst Foundation as an observer, trying to understand how it has grown, indeed flourished, despite difficult circumstances engendered by . . .

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