YAKIMA -- "It's hard to describe the misery when you look into these people's eyes."

He witnessed need, pain and despair few could stomach. He didn't go to see what a shifting earth had done to Haiti. He went to repair the people it tried to destroy.

More than 100 surgeries, amputations, crushed bodies and flattened hope. Yakima's Dr. Jason Cundiff is back after two weeks of round the clock care for the people of a ruined nation…

"He should have a distal pancreas mass…"

…catching up on his local practice with unforgettable visions of what and where he was just a few days ago.

"I can walk away from most surgeries I do and I go to the next one. That's my job. In this case a lot of this is lasting and it's the scale that really gets to you."

Fill the floor of the Sundome and you have this trauma surgeon's patient waiting room a few yards from Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic. Fill it again, and you understand the numbers of those his team has repaired… his post op.

I asked Dr. Cundiff what he sees when he looks at the photos of his time on the island.

"They're haunting, a lot of the photographs. It looks like a lot of caos. Several hundred, one spot in my camp alone who had injuries as severe as I'd ever seen, and having to deal with them in less than optimal and adequate means to take care of them."

Cundiff actually surprised by the level of understanding and cooperation by the patients he was seeing there.

"I expected there would be problems with crowd control and families of patients and there really was not. We had armed guards with m-16's ready to take care of anything we needed. These people, unlike any patient population I've been involved with really had to surrender themselves."

They Surrendered themselves and were grateful for these medical angels. And if Jason Cundiff has his way, he's only just begun. Now that he knows what he needs and more importantly doesn't need to have an impact on this kind of devastation, he's making plans for a return.

Cundiff has found nothing but support in Yakima, from the medical community, the hospitals and even his own patients. He wants nothing more than a chance to make it count.

"Ultimately I want to develop an organization that has a fully functional, self contained operating room."

A Yakima based, fast attack medical team… born of the most extreme need and the desire to pay it forward, even if 2,000 miles forward.