GoWhereItHurts
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ItHurts
Surgical kits, packed duffels, and scrubbed hands — crossing tarmacs at dawn to reach the world's most underserved communities.
Everything you need
before you go.
Field-tested resources from 347 deployments across 41 countries — free, specific, and built by people who have been there.
Seven Days in the Rift Valley: A Surgical Team's Deployment Diary
48 procedures, two emergency cesareans, one generator failure at 2 a.m. — and a community that had waited 14 months for a surgeon.
The Complete First-Timer's Deployment Pack
What to bring, what to leave behind, and the three items every first-time medical volunteer wishes they had packed. Curated by 180 veterans.
2025 Annual Patient Outcomes Report
Real data from 23 deployments: complication rates, post-operative follow-up protocols, and long-term outcome tracking across six surgical specialties.
Sterile Field in Non-Sterile Environments: Field Surgery Fundamentals
Dr. Amara Osei walks through improvised sterile technique for concrete-floor operating rooms — the protocols we actually use in the field.
Haiti Field Medicine Protocol: Post-Earthquake Deployment Standards
Drug availability, endemic disease considerations, translation resources, and logistics contacts updated for the current operating environment.
Church Congregation Giving Campaign: Everything Your Coordinator Needs
Sermon inserts, pledge card templates, impact slides, and a 6-week campaign timeline that raised $47,000 for a congregation of 200.
Reaching Mothers Who Have Never Seen an OB: Maternal Health in Rural Guatemala
A photo essay documenting 11 days of prenatal care, emergency obstetric training, and the midwives who will carry the work forward.
Portable Dental Unit Setup: From Suitcase to Functioning Clinic in 40 Minutes
The exact configuration our dental teams use — chair, compressor, sterilization — fitting in four checked bags and clearing customs without drama.
The 72-Hour Window: Trauma Triage for Mass Casualty Events
How our teams prioritize and move in the first three days after a disaster — protocols developed across earthquake, flood, and conflict deployments.
The missions leave
in weeks, not months.
Spots fill fast. Medical professionals, volunteers, and coordinators — find the deployment that fits your skills and schedule.
The Field Guide.
No fluff, no filler.
68 pages of everything we wish we had before our first deployment — country protocols, packing lists, field triage frameworks, and the cultural context that keeps volunteers from making expensive mistakes.
4,200+ volunteers downloaded this month
The people who went before you
left notes.
The protocols in the Field Guide kept our team from making three mistakes we would have made on day one. By day three, we were running a functioning OR in a schoolroom. Nothing in my residency prepared me for that — this did.
I coordinated the giving campaign for our congregation of 340 people using the fundraising toolkit. We raised $61,000 in six weeks. The mission shipped in April. Eight surgeons went. I stayed home and cried at the departure gate.
I was a pre-med junior with zero field experience. I showed up in the Philippines not knowing what I didn't know. The checklist kept me useful. The photo essays kept me honest about what I was walking into. I applied to medical school the week I got back.
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