The doctors and nurses dancing around sick patients in hospital beds, whom Boyle recruited for this presentation, certainly deserve recognition for their hard work and devotion.
In 1986, photojournalist Didier Lefevre was sent to document a Doctors Without Borders mission in Afghanistan, taking hundreds of photographs of doctors and nurses struggling to tend to the sick and wounded during the Soviet occupation.
It begins with the doctors and nurses who stayed behind to care for the sick and the injured without equipment, without electricity -- like our nation's Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin -- (applause) -- who mortgaged her house, maxed out on her credit cards so she could reopen her clinic and help care for victims of the storm.