15. Serving in Long-Term Medical Missions While Raising a Family, with Dr. Robyn Jennings, family medicine

Welcome back, everyone!

Episode 15 is with Dr. Robyn Jennings, a family medicine physician who serves with Mission Doctors Association, a Catholic organization that provides medical care for the poor and training for local healthcare professionals.

While we’ve talked medical missions on this podcast before, this episode brings the fresh perspective of long-term medical missions with a family- and Dr. Jennings was preparing to leave for another mission when we talked!

We talk about:

• Dr. Jenning’s conversion to Catholicism
• Long-term medical missions and her experiences serving abroad in Ghana, Honduras,  and Tanzania (as a student)
• Practicing medicine without the ease of access to supplies/tests/specialists
• Living abroad on mission with children
• Dating and marriage in medical school

 We reference:

• Mission Doctors Association - I also encourage you to donate if you feel compelled! 
• Dr. Jenning’s blog

We reference the books Old Pioneers and Death Comes to the Archbishop by Willa Cather, and Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott.

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