By Jeff Trotman
Dr. Stephen Carryl lives a purpose-driven life.
“I don’t care how small or little, you cannot live life without a purpose,” he said at a social gathering last Friday at the LEN Building, in Linden, to wrap up his annual mission heading an Overseas Medical Assistance Team (OMAT) to Linden. “I’m just blessed that my profession and my purpose line up right so that I could come back to Linden and do what I… was designed to do. I was born to help people and I know it. So, I don’t fight it. You know there are some people, who have a purpose and they try to run away from it?”
Since 1991, he has been heading the annual mission, which comprises a variety of United States-based medical specialists and nurses, who provide free medical examinations,