1-29-09: Cleaning house
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »No, I didn't clean my house. I'm saving that for the weekend. I'm referring to what seems to be a mass exodus of patients from the hospital.Today was TB day, which means we started with TB ward rounds. It was incredibly stormy ...
1-28-09: Just another day
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I was trying to think of something for the title when I realized that there was hardly anything remarkable that happened today. Maybe now that I've been in PNG for four weeks, everything will be routine for the remaining two. Right.Since today was ...
1-27-09: Walking casts and non-walking patients
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Don't worry; today was a much better day. There will be much fewer complaints about sweaty patients and water pumps :)The day started with a bit on unease, as I thought I'd be spending the morning in antenatal clinic (pre-natal checks), and ...
1-26-09: A long and tiring day
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Today wasn't looking all that great from the beginning. It was hotter than usual last night, and I had a hard time falling sleep, leaving me still feeling tired and groggy this morning even before rounds began. And then rounds took forever! Four ...
1-25-09: Ice cream!
Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Yes, there is ice cream in PNG. It made me happy.Today, being Sunday, was church, which is a bit more of an ordeal here than it was a Kapuna. The church is probably the mid-point of the loop that Dr. Manar and ...
1-23-09: The long road to Kopi
Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The day started out fairly routine. As has been the case all week, I had a hard time dragging myself out of bed, but I did manage to show up at the wards around 8:30 for rounds. Recovery ward rounds ...
1-22-09: Seeing God in unexpected places
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »It's not that I don't see God's hand in many places, in many different ways, but sometimes it appears where it's not expected. I'll get to that in a bit.The started pretty well. For some reason, I've been rather reluctant to get out ...
1-21-09: Another long, hot day
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I guess I shouldn't complain about the hours too much. The othernight, I was telling stories about some of my third-year clerkshipexperiences with Dr. Manar--the fourteen to sixteen hour days, themean residents, the endless scut work, the mean residents--and Iguess ...
1-20-09: Beginning with a bang
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Tuesdays at Kikori means surgical cases (or, as they say here,theater cases. Actually, since they speak British English, it'sprobably 'theatre' cases), and those don't start until 9, so I got tosleep in, which was nice. My new house is actually ...
1-19-09: On a slow boat to Kikori
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »As predicted, I made it over to Kikori today. We had a bit of adelayed start (the original plan was to leave between 8 and 9; we gotout around 9:30), but after five and a half hours in a motorizedcanoe, ...