Port-au-Prince , Haiti ( CNN ) -- Like many people who have done their time in Haiti , Gary Garner needs a good cry . In the past five days , the Salt Lake City , Utah , physician has held a dying man in his arms and amputated more fingers and toes than he can remember . Now , he needs a rest . Friday found him on the tarmac at the Port-au-Prince airport , searching for a way back to a normal life . `` We 're going to go home and cry , '' Garner said in a low voice . Then quietly , gently , with the suffering showing in his eyes as he looks away , he starts to cry . The pain ca n't wait for home . Full coverage | Twitter updates . Elizabeth Bellino could n't wait either . The New Orleans , Louisiana , pediatrician sat in her car Friday and wept because doctors at another nation 's hospital would not accept a truckload of food and water from her . Nor would they let her pick up patients to take back to the University of Miami field hospital , where she 's been volunteering this week . `` It 's so frustrating , '' Bellino said afterward . `` Why would they do that ? '' There 's much crying in Haiti . There 's certain to be more once caregivers and others get home . For now , though , the work continues . iReport : List of missing , found | Are you there ? Bellino had an increasing patient load at the hospital , located in a dusty field adjacent to the Aeroport International Toussaint L'Ouverture . A 5.9-magnitude aftershock Wednesday had given her new patients . Even though Garner was trying to figure out how to get home , he still kept tending to patients being brought to a landing zone in three private helicopters . Those helicopters belong to Utah businessman Jeremy Johnson , who offered to take a medical team to Haiti after last week 's 7.0-magnitude earthquake killed tens of thousands and injured thousands more . Garner was a last-minute addition to a team put together by financial adviser Craig Nelson , a neighbor in Utah . Nelson had been to Haiti on a Mormon mission 20 years ago , along with Steve Hansen and Chuck Peterson , now both Utah physicians . When Nelson heard about the earthquake , he decided they needed to go . Hansen and Peterson readily agreed . They were dropped off Monday at the coastal city of Leogane , nearly 20 miles ( 30 kilometers ) west of Port-au-Prince . The city was at the epicenter of last week 's earthquake , and some reports say up to 90 percent of Leogane 's buildings were damaged or destroyed . Impact Your World . The U.S. doctors were among the first caregivers to arrive and were later joined by teams from Cuba , Germany , Canada and other nations . Unlike what happened to Bellino in Port-au-Prince , everyone got along fine in Leogane . `` It was like the United Nations of medical work , '' said Nelson . `` There were no nationalities , '' Garner said . They treated about 300 patients . The medicine was often rudimentary because of a lack of supplies . One doctor used a Leatherman tool to amputate a man 's lower leg . Doctors also used a rack from the back of a bicycle as a makeshift orthopedic splint , screwing it into the patient 's leg bones . The days were long , bleeding deep into the night . Sleep lasted three or four hours . `` We worked until our headlamps ran out of batteries and then people would bring us batteries , '' Garner said . `` You can sleep when you 're dead , '' he said . `` And I 'll have plenty of time to sleep this weekend . '' And , no doubt , have a good cry or two .
Doctor from one looks for a home after 5 years of volunteering . Another is frustrated by lack of cooperation from another state 's doctors . Both have been too busy treating patients to cry over what they ' ve seen .