ELIZABETHTON – When he sewed up a deep cut to the bone in the jungle of Nicaragua on a mission trip shortly after he graduated from college, Dr. Jeremy Meyer was convinced of the critical importance of surgery. Now, he finds his calling to do surgery closer to home at Mountain States Medical Group General Surgery as the group’s newest surgeon, and on occasional medical mission trips. “I saw how surgery was a good fit for doing medical work in the developing countries and I desire to do more of that, so this was the big draw to go into surgery for me,” he said. When Dr.