"This story is about a patient who came to our Jungle School of Medicine in Karen State. She came from her home in a jungle village to our clinic, where she learned from our doctor that her condition needed more advanced treatment. We brought her to Thailand, where our patient care team, which is a combination of western volunteers and Karen people, acted as her guides, caretakers and counselors through what must have been a very frightening and lonely experience: without family in a strange country, surrounded by strange machines, and with her body gradually shutting down..."