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Ruth Chappell checks the heartbeat of a child during a surgery screening at Ternate Hospital in Ternate, Indonesia, July 18, 2010. The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy is in the North Maluku Islands conducting Pacific Partnership 2010, the fifth in a series of annual U.S. Pacific Fleet endeavors in Indonesia as a disaster relief exercise. Chappell is participating through the Pre-Dental Society at the University of California at San Diego.

A CHILD'S HEARTBEAT

Ruth Chappell checks the heartbeat of a child during a surgery screening at Ternate Hospital in Ternate, Indonesia, July 18, 2010. The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy is in the North Maluku Islands conducting Pacific Partnership 2010, the fifth in a series of annual U.S. Pacific Fleet endeavors in Indonesia as a disaster relief exercise. Chappell is participating through the Pre-Dental Society at the University of California at San Diego.

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