To Be The Best

A thought from Director of Operations, Brian Crowe

I'm in the midst of wrapping up a book written by Gene Kranz entitled, "Failure Is Not An Option". It is a book chronologically following the arc of the space program development from the first launch through Apollo 13. "Kranz was part of the mission that, in January 1961, launched a chimpanzee into space and successfully retrieved him, and made Alan Shepard the first American in space in May 1961. Just two months later they launched Gus Grissom for space orbit, John Glenn orbited Earth three times in Feb. 1962, and in May of 1963 Gordon Cooper completed the final Project Mercury launch with 22 Earth orbits. And through them all, and the many Apollo missions that followed, Gene Kranz was one of the integral inside men -- one of these who bore the responsibility for the Apollo 1 tragedy, and the leader of the "tiger team" that saved the Apollow 13 astronauts."
I received this book after having seen the space shuttle Atlantis launch early this summer. I got bit.

This book has turned out to be a quietly inspiring book regarding what we do as a part of the MEDICO team. In the course of our administrative management we're constantly examining our processes ensuring that we are following the mission directives (or objectives) and are doing so in the most efficient, most effective means possible. It requires focusing on our tasks at hand and simultaneously looking ahead preemptively to ensure the success of our future efforts. It is an effort to be the very best at what we do.

The ultimate success of MEDICO, however, is not solely what the office manages, but what passionately stirs the hearts and hands of the volunteers. It is seeing volunteers in action, putting in play a trajectory path of comprehensive health care for people who so desperately need this care. To this end MEDICO has and will continue to be a leader in humanitarian health care response in Central America.