Kathleen Magee and William Magee, M.D. are the founders of Operation Smile, a nonprofit organization that dispatches volunteer medical teams to developing countries to perform free corrective surgery on disfigured children. In the United States, many common birth defects are treated surgically in the first years of a child's life, but in countries where the most basic medical care may be inaccessible, disfigured children have little hope for treatment and are often ostracized or abandoned. In 1981, Dr. Magee joined his first volunteer mission to the Philippines to operate on children...