Voyage LA: “Meet Dr. Lawrence Dorr of Operation Walk”
“Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Lawrence Dorr.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Dr. Lawrence. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
When I was a young boy in Iowa, I have the memory of going from the small town in which we lived to Des Moines, Iowa which to me was the “big city”. I have a vivid memory of sitting on the examining table of a doctor and I didn’t really understand why, but it was an adventure to me! The why was because my father wanted to become a missionary to the Philippines, but he was rejected because he had TB of the spine as a young boy on the farm which he contracted from the milk of a cow. But it is that desire of my father to be a missionary that had some influence on me in founding Operation Walk. I was invited to Russia by the head of Orthopedics in Russia who was a general in their army and whose hospital was in Moscow.”