I'm >> all set send me in hello >> my name is Angela Williamson your host for this special screening of Transfer Mondo Virus in El Chocho on Calcium's by filmmaker Ty Woodson we first learned about Mission Plastics in the first season of Everybody with Angela Williamson on ALCS Dr. Larry Nektar discuss the organization's mission to reform reconstructive surgery for those without resources the documentary follows Doctor Nektar and his volunteer doctors and nurses as they help ammend families around the world ty thank you so much for being here thanks for having me I appreciate it it's a very interesting documentary why did you come up with this wonderful topic why didn't you come up with the topic it's been a problem in Third World countries for centuries we have great >> medical care here in the United States and these wonderful doctors Mission Plastics you take their use their spare time use their vacation to go and work on children who are born with cleft palates or might have burns or who knows they mostly specialize in cleft palates but they do this all the time they go all over the world Cuba Nepal I went with them to Cuba Nepal and Argentina but I also know that they were going to our IRAC a couple of very hairy places that you wouldn't want to actually a normal person wouldn't want to go but these doctors they use their vacation time and they volunteer and that's what they do and I've seen your footage and it's very detailed and so you already knew the mission of mission Plastic goes before you went where you still a little bit surprised as a filmmaker um they they they prepare me pretty well they knew that there was going to be a lot of blood and there's going to be a lot of things you don't see in normal life especially being here in America but that's why I wanted to go that's why I wanted to do it just shooting films in America is OK but when you can have a chance to go to Cuba or Argentina and actually live like the people be like the people we lived with the people actually when we weren't filming or we weren't in a hospital we were actually staying at their houses so and they would take care of us and feed us and it was you learn so much and you you can only tell so much being a documentarian when you're filming but yeah it's just it was a great experience I could never you would hope you would do it any time well you said there's only so much that you can tell yeah but you have you go in there with a point of view where you able to actually tell that story with that point of view you went into these when I was going with them it was you basically have to find the stories there you're going in there and >> the people you don't know who's going to show up before we get there they send out a message to the local cities saying hey the American doctors are coming in they want to operate on and see you so when we get there there's hundreds of hundreds of people waiting in line to get seen by these doctors and they one is the people come in and the doctors look at them to make sure that they can operate on them make sure that they haven't had a cold make sure that because the worst thing would be to lose a child during one of these missions so there's an exam that goes usually takes the first day maybe the second day and then from there the rest of the trip next five six days is just nonstop operations from morning to night is eight o'clock in the morning sometimes ten ten ten thirty at night wow well you're going to stay with us after we watch the documentary we're going to talk some more about it but before we transition to this documentary is there one thing you like to tell our viewers that they should pay attention to as they watch this amazing documentary no >> I would just like to maybe we have a good here in America and maybe we could talk about a lot more when we get past the documentary but yeah these these Third World countries they really do need the help they really need these doctors doing they're doing their work and any way you could support any way you could donate everything and any amount of money helps get them out of America and helping a kid that's a perfect way to end and start this documentary and then after we're going to continue our discussion all right thank you bye now >> let's watch this incredible documentary and stay after the documentary as I continue my conversation with Ty why are you doing so why are you spending so much time away from your practice with your family you know the answer goes for all of our volunteers many of our volunteers are nurses give up their vacation time to go but what you get in return far outweighs all that so once you immerse yourself in a local situation off the grid in these areas that are so needy what you find is you can't let go when you leave you think about the communities you left you think about the kids that weren't treated I'm always thinking what next time I can leave for the next trip and I always sort of feel that that pressure that we're just not doing enough but once you immerse yourself here you can't lungi physically part of that culture and you go all over the world adds a new dimension to your life it is really I see one that that like your body what would be that soft yeah yeah maybe that but yeah like Parchester yeah but he just seems really flushers years red your mother says you sir make sure will be sick or not put the same question I can do it but otherwise is a great family yeah ok I just I was wondering Orvis because you like his ears even his ears are bright red and white when I listen to I didn't hear any of that sounds but when I feel him it feels a little hot and running down to safety all the way on this case we have more of it so but is good that's good we're trying to level this one this bronchospasm yeah so I'm just trying to any question this is Yeah yeah bringing home a lot of this but I know I know these guys but they're doing really well and I realized that it was a basic problem and how all these groups these wonderful groups are doing great things paradoxically they're also doing not such great things the focus of all these missions whether they were religious is based if there is purely philanthropic based they try to raise over and do as many surgeries as they possibly could and they would do wonderful things they do life changing surgeries for these kids and stuff like that and they do a huge number in a short period time and then they left as suddenly as they came there was really no training or very little training there was no self sufficient and so what was happening is instead of creating independey was creating depnceaof being self-suffien woulde arou t we can't do any seares we have to wait for the North Americans to rush in and a help us out and it was defeating the cause and so I decided I wanted to start an organiti tt prily focused on making surgeons and nurses and anesthesiologists and pediatricians self-sufficient and comfortable treating these particular problem surgical problems remedied right there in your own backyard I know that thousands of cases are being done that they never would have been done because I realized that the key is is you have to leverage the care to be able to take care of so many more than you alone can take care of in a lifetime and to me that was the ultimate goal and at the time at least that's what was missing just about all the different organizations that I've been with interesting that are now adopting our model of teaching is the primary causes not all of them but many and that's great the more it can do it for that which was a we be so that we learn yes the epistle the essay my mother either one of the Mawlawi Supernet Ecumenical Stepashin when the waterpolo performance or children yes that was so interesting and this explosion instantly that propelled is coming out of the hospital necessarily Kosofsky Multistory in the coma someone they canellos come on someone Nicola Nunneries Taklamakan almost like killed is allowing Mendelow But I can see sort of see no no not at all and let me let Chloe start with assuming the Estella Baraki in but I guess will you of I would I've been in practice twenty five years I love plastic surgery people have a concept of beauty and not only while doing a reconstructive surgery and while doing cleft lip and palate it's very common for parents and well the other patients to become adults to try and look better so it's always about the same question only that the the I feel that the concept of beauty has been misused and has been used for only commercial purposes I'm convinced that everybody wants to like fit in so it's nice to feel that you do part of that and also obviously the things that you may not see as a cleft palate when hearing people talking better it's very interesting because people tend to relate not talking good with being dumb and I think that's a key key part of doing a cleft palate knowing that people will be able to get a job knowing that they're doing OK and that they it's not a brain problem it's completely another hallways filled businesses business is booming I may want to have a secondary office here this is great pictures out the officer so we're it is not that patient so the key is this once word gets out it's really going to happen even though we only have one client they you'll see but we outside of our door could be like ten or twenty every day we need to we need to step it up a little bit because you get anything the they want to know the reason why and how are you the working Yes so we're invited by the medical staff from the Department of Plastic Surgery for them to be down for the kind of plastic they look so I made a site visit last year and those official notification my fellow to make sure that there is a need I say 1969 that the surgeons wanted to change techniques with us KARNOFSKY Sereana because the lines are coming out of Benghazi to think of the African Union the fighter the surgeons all over the world the problem is slightly different and see to prolong their time CNN will be fit in the next few years and we asked him to save some of the most complicated types of surgeries we can interchange information many of those people at the embassy Ambien and Sinéad or the entry level gasket he's just been in Bangkok I'm so we also brought some specialized instrumentation that we will provide to them so they will continue to do these types of surgeries afterwards and I mean real quickly because the Democratic Haukaas a Birak group work on inaudible and it could be worth when surgeons from different parts of the country will get together there is synergistic activity and we always come up with better new techniques and we each learn from each other and look at things like that come the I like running but I see pretty interesting only there can be a professional in saying and the fact that the with the permission to see that also if there's anything I can say for you I mean how do you get the difference by first of all all four volunteers take vacations to come here and but he made him think of you know kind of giving him that for it I give you the cassiano for a brother who sells for a buyer I need to see me and those people all over the world have very large hearts a lot of my patients understand what I do on my communication time and they donate money and also some of the companies donate instruments and different types of implants I just embrace that many people from last year I love Garmisch there is a really founded I happen to think that I am pretty certain and they don't own instruments that people would be more as an inventor a guy named Nonomiya Phone I sit in on it bardak people at Methionine and they seem to everyone in our foundation are volunteers capitulations somebody from Orlando you used to be I guess the name of the officer on the which is Classis the one and only my chief is that being Disneyesque Júlia on the yeah I know also the battle for Danniella to the end obviously he has a the time will pay out on his show but I don't see that they are going to get a list I don't know if it's a real good ID number but they have to be to be redone do you think you don't get the he's a trick they bring back something like that we fix it you yep I'm not the only one on the whole I get that I'll tell you eight days eight years of age so that may have said the other develops over time because the last time I saw so that's how I see that record so he's missing his kneecap because affectionate I love it but I've been at this you see with another idea they to to say well you know to do something whether they had to bed first of all that they require he's requires several surgeries in his lifetime but isn't that body you see he seems to be the first course the first problem is is that this area where his teeth are protruding medicine and then the first lady saying not necessarily of the endless it's called a pre maxilla but it's twisted to the right it is angled wiggle and what we need to do is somehow you know this is extremely wide is looking at the millions to before for on the other staff members they yeah and that's that's called the lip adhesion I hession in that with time that is going to take the take the teeth that are out front and slowly push him back like this I then after several months maybe six or eight months or so he'll be ready to get the muscles repaired across in a formal hand but then when he's between one and two years of age the idea is with us that we need to fix the inside cleft palate and then when he's about eight or nine years of age he's going to need a little bone graft to cement the power to make sure it's fixed position but see if you're going to have when he's 16 years of age Fixer's knows the answer that's right that's right yeah I know that he had been in that is that I get in the way but know I just I think being in crisis you know no I don't know for that matter the ideal of a kitten something within ethnicity no more than I but subculture all I know complex I know and I said are both subtle and primitive and not but I'm kind of slow but I don't think the content of Chris is good good a little disorganized at the beginning but we got it organized and went through what 70 patients more or less and now we're going to take all that we saw make a list priority wise which ones and we have all the families outside and they're going to we're going to let them know whether we're going to operate and if we do which date it's going to be so they're all waiting outside for us to make the list and let them know great great Moloto Keadilan and me and Randy you know feel Phoenicia forget what I said and get on it but I'm not so much what you see I work in no solo but I they want to hear diva but I know filamentous who 180 thou so Anadolu MoVida yes yes I gets my this continue but in this case this woman look it is at the end of the the NCAA tournament as it is yes someone must give her a year so it wasn't the same game to win this is what I saw you going to see the full interview no comment he may get the right kind one the other one is he saw this that I mean you look inside like she said my first flip surgery came out and about she looked for feet back to him yes yes I see yeah yeah yeah no no no no no no the from a man named it's okay let's say been someone else he was a pro forma this is and an and it is but he's a just on him that one is the one you know and he's a wrestler I just met that wow wow wow wow oh my but I know that one year high Shijiazhuang I honestly feel like the minute I meet these kids and meet their parents I don't feel like they're strangers in any way and I feel I feel really grateful that I'm able to communicate with them in Spanish so I feel like I can get to know them a little bit better than through a translator and so the trust and the unconditional belief that we are going to help their children is extraordinary to me and so that to me is a gift that I hold very dear and I honor it and I think of I think our full and wonderful my life is and so I need to at tried out some of these kids and their families for oh oh oh so now if you can get easier as a first time Hashimoto's going to anything at the bottom of it I adhesion Michelle to attach the lips to this segment it will pull it down not even a muscle just even a soft tissue it will pull it down little Heagle Picardy and English at the Stranger so the question is can I even ask such a great distance that a lot Gaza is sea level that is adhesion and event eventually when it comes down this will be could be too wide and then you do the definitive repair of the left it about so I don't even know if I can do an adhesion this we have to do up with it I said nice this is going to be turned down like this I want OK uh huh and this is going to join this right OK the same with this this is turned down and attached to the side this one ok ok and then this flap is going to attach to this and then the second better look like a Olympio is going to be seven thirty and they'll say look this is a guy with the little boy up to fix your arm all culpable but I thought you kind of fell into the line of the indicated a second and went up into my my my my my head lower than a when I don't want to yeah no with me you're good you I think he's free you have section already go no I want to make sure you know as long as you relax it's going to be one of those muscles to go crazy relax and take the last couple of minutes All right let's take him over there and let him play there let him work on further OK OK where which better we're going to Garcia OK we got to but we thought a papa >> B but I said this is mummy I am here and he but I get to get some more I've been all over the world whether it's Southeast Asia deep into South America Central America India and there's very similar for example there's this myth that's pervasive all over the world different languages different cultures that if a pregnant woman see someone kicked off there's a high likelihood that her baby will be born with a cleft that in general that people they're born with severe deformities or develop huge deformities as a child are are kept out of sight of the community so the impact is tremendous it keeps it keeps the mother at home with the child so the mother can't work and keeps the child out of school so then when the child is able to work there's nothing wrong with their brain or their hands there's no job for them at all it affects the whole community in terms of how the wealth of the community both social wealth as well as economic wealth so how far away do they live in the reason I ask that is it's really important that they follow up with the maxillofacial surgeon because they can make that palatable expansion device we talked I see the first be because they but I know help them eat better and speak better yeah he grew up with an amendment for not looking at ask her is >> this is what she thought he would look like or is this that way our concern here is that look what did she expect to be OK good news and in my view come on you've FSR we've I said this I feel defeated very emotional and then there is what I said get him on on the people >> just say we were so happy to be able to help it must get better he's for that I get that he's what a handsome guy to >> consider what investigative reporter right numbers successful day he's some trees hurting just a little bit but he should be thrilled he'll be one of the guys out playing with no one else and I don't think that would have happened oh my if you think about it how often in life can you as a person create a small miracle the time it takes to go to a movie the time it takes to go out for dinner you can change someone's life and at the same time feel great about it and know the impact will be life changing not only for that person but for the whole family to be able to you help create a small what is considered to that person a small miracle by something >> you do every day that in this country it's expected everyone you take care of the expected in these countries even if you don't operate on that patient because because they couldn't fit on your schedule but they know someone's going to do it the emotion the tears the >> profound thanks it just it >> brings back home all the reasons you first entered medical school that everyone forgets it's you come full circle and that makes you know it's just a huge difference is never underestimate the power of a few committed people to accomplish great things >> get the 7:00 a.m. phone processing don't better but a decade and I see all the rest of the public but on the but OK but I'd better get started on a CEO India this is my board of directors and also put on CEO Jeffrey Finmart a Marriott and the in the Caribbean for most of the said we will when I say that with retirement they would move up I got a little bit of finicky on that line is just the by no emotion when I see the midnight when I was eight when the muscle utility to hear him was wow seem to be in mood Boris will see you colloquial well then I think I've got it together so I could see the promoters they can ask you Louis MacInnes here I see but then I guess you have you ask happiness they have no bethink you I mean what Maria maybe maybe I want I must say I feel a bit of that and yes I can guarantee but we are living empty with a million more than you though not them you know the whole I you look at this thing if you don't know your I will never know what's yet the last one thought the Baltic Sea in the Middle East but a lot of people see Savea in elementary in my led to it being absolutely beautiful they got welcome back Tai is back with me to discuss this documentary well done Tai thank you we when we left off we talked a little bit about how these doctors and nurses volunteer their time their vacation time to go into these Third World countries you also mentioned too that here in America we take a little bit might take advantage of all the things we have here and our medical care system what big take away did you have after shooting so many days it was ten days right >> ten days two days of travel eight days of filming sometimes we get one day off the you know the relax but it gives you a new perspective on being an American it gives you a new perspective of this country if you've never traveled to a third world and actually not to not to the hotspots like people go to Cuba they go to Havana you know that's you know that's Cuba America tour yeah yeah when we went to Cuba we were to send Fuegos the third largest city but there was tons of poverty it was you see how the Cubans actually live there you know Havana is going to make it seem like Miami it's it's the America it's American version of of Cuba but whenever you have a chance to go to a third world country try to try to get off the beaten path try to try to live see how the real people live we were embedded Cienfuegos with families who took care of us but at the same time they they showed us their culture they showed us how they really live and then you hear all the real stories and the real problems of you know what happens to the nutrition they don't have good nutrition so that that's why a lot of cleft palates are actually happened are formed things like that don't happen that often here in the States because when that when that's detected in the that is taken care of instantly they start working on it while the baby's in the as soon as the baby's born there's doctors taking care of that child all the way for the next two years so the same type of medical care here it's a it's a big difference it's a big change in a big eye opener I'm kind of rambling on but I think I'm trying to answer your questions like if you get a chance to go to a third world definitely take a go and experience and understand yeah well you talked about the prenatal care that we have here and it's so sophisticated that we we never encounter a lot of these problems because they're taken care of while the mother is carrying the child but another thing too that you caught really well when you shot this documentary was with your interview with Dr. Nektar when he talked about the mothers that have children that are born with deformiti I mean it's it'sl like a social shaming in a way >> am I understanding that correctly in i t countries they're n vd they are not as educated obviously s tm ha gone to school they're t luy ones and yeah like I think it's Nepal or India if you look at a person with a cleft lip if you're a woman and you're a pregnant I mean you look at a person with a cleft lip they think that automatically that baby's going to have a cleft lip they're just weird that's all over the world it's just it's lack of education these doctors are going all over the world they educate the doctors that's that's the other point we should make is they're not just going over there and fixing these kids they're going over there and educating the doctors that's that's their main mission because yeah anybody could go over there and do a mission and fix one hundred kids and leave but then there's still thousands of kids who are going to need the care but if you can train the doctors while you're there on how to how to do that operation you solve the problem you really admission because this mission is to not be around anymore if they could get around the world and train as many doctors as humanly possible then this could be solved and you talked about the training and the doctors and that they leave that knowledge there but I even remember hearing in the documentary where after the surgery they're telling the parents you need to come for follow up and sometimes I mean the doctors can't spend a lot of time to do follow ups because there's more than one follow up after Major surgery like that correct not for the cleft palates the cleft palates are usually they use a special suture where it will dissolves so there's not a lot of but they do have them come back so that they can get one last look at them make sure everything's looking good but yeah that's that's part of the problem is a lot of people that are showing up have actually never been to a doctor have never had medical care and you know some of the things we see is like weird deformities that you would never see here absolutely wow well before we end our conversation you actually touched upon it before we went to watch the documentary about how we can support causes like this you told us that the vision for Mission Plastics is that they are no longer needs to be a mission plastics so what can we do right now to help these doctors as they probably are starting to plan these trips again as we call it >> right I would go to the website they have a site there where you can if you're a doctor or nurse you can sign up to volunteer they always need looking for new volunteers that could speak the language the native language that they're going to be going to or donate you know they are five or one C three so every every penny helps and their money's going directly to >> help help children they're going it's going directly to the cause you're not paying for you know CEOs salaries you're paying for children >> because mostly these doctors and nurses are volunteer all >> volunteers absolutely thank you so much Ty and thank you for joining us for this special screening yourself you make these specials possible stay well and take care