Don's Mission to Mexicali, Mexico

The first trip to Mexicali was just a fact-finding mission. By the time Don went back to Stanford, his plan had formed in his mind. He wanted to recruit the best doctors from the United States and perform free surgeries on children with birth defects. Every few months, the doctors would descend on Mexicali. They'd throw themselves into four marathon days of back-to-back surgeries,. Over the years, they'd come back, again and again, performing more than 2,000 surgeries in all.