NAMES IN THE NEWS : House Call Gets Actor Involved
Dennis Quaid’s surprise when a doctor made a house call during filming of “The Big Easy” in 1984 got the actor involved in trips to Central America as a chaperon of ailing children.
“I just couldn’t believe a doctor made a house call for me, and I told him if there was ever anything I could do for him, . . .” Quaid said. “And he returned with, ‘As a matter of fact. . . .’ ”
The doctor was Mayer Heiman, who has brought more than 100 sick children from the world’s poorest regions for treatment in U.S. hospitals since he founded the International Hospital for Children in 1981.
Quaid returned to New Orleans over the weekend from his second trip to Central America, escorting six children ranging in age from 6 months to 12 years.
The youngest child, a Honduran, will have open-heart surgery. The oldest, from El Salvador, will be treated for eye problems.
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