Opinion columnist Harold Jackson wrote that, while accompanying an American medical-missions team to Ethiopia a week ago, he learned a lot about why U.S health care provides a good standard to emulate. Glenn Isaacson, part of the Healing the Children team and director of pediatric otolaryngology at Temple University Hospital, told Jackson that patient care wasn't the only way to measure the success of a medical mission. “It's far more good for our [medical] residents and the Ethiopian residents to have the experience of providing good medical care, because the medical care here isn't good. It isn't good because the doctors doing it are too few and incompletely trained. It isn't good because they lack the resources to take good care of patients. They may have equipment, but much of it is broken."