2-11-09: The never-ending day
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Wednesday, February 11 began at 5:15am in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. After a quick shower and packing everything that didn't get packed the night before, I helped myself to breakfast and checked my email again before getting in the ...
2-10-09: Back to civilization
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I'm back! Well, not back--I'm at the Mapang Missionary Guesthouse in Port Moresby, but I'm back to the world of electricity for 24 hours a day and, more importantly, internet. As I had 425 unread emails waiting for upon my ...
2-9-09: Last full day in Kikori
Monday, February 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Today was not bad for my last full day at Kikori. I started the day with laundry (fun and exciting, I know), so that the clothes I give to the hospital tomorrow will be at least somewhat clean. Ward rounds were not terribly ...
2-8-09: A taste of PNG culture
Monday, February 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Again, no blog entry for yesterdaysorry. Not much happened; my only venture away from the house (due to lack of things to do, not sickness this time) was for a fruitless search for greens in the market. No luck. Today Dr. Manar and I ...
2-6-09: Wrapping it up
Friday, February 6th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Today seemed to be the like the last season of a long-run TV show, when they bring back the characters who have come before in a nice way of wrapping everything up and closing all the loose story lines. Ward rounds started fairly ...
2-5-09: TB or not TB…that is the question
Thursday, February 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »First of all, I apologize to Shakespeare for taking his line and changing it to suit my purposes. Seeing as he's dead, though, I doubt he'll mind. The day started with TB rounds, which again went fairly quickly. Part of that was because of ...
2-4-09: Performing American medicine in PNG
Thursday, February 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Today seemed to be an all-around American medical-system type of day. First, rounds went very quickly--what usually takes us four to five hours to complete took two, and after some discharges, we're now down to one patient in the general ward, a malnourished three-month-old ...
2-3-09: Birth control in PNG
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Today, being a Tuesday, was our day to be in the operating theatre (although lately, with all the fractures we've been setting, we've been in there quite a bit). We had a fairly full schedule set up for us: a skin graft, re-plastering ...
2-2-09: Call me Ishmael
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »My run of boring days in PNG has come to an abrupt end. After a somewhat rocky start this morning, I headed over to ward rounds a bit late (I apparently didn't miss anything), and was only there for a few minutes before ...
2-1-09: Welcome to February
Monday, February 2nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I just realized as I was typing the date that here in PNG, that would mean January 2nd, which means my time here is just starting... hmm. But anyway, it is now February, as I realized this morning when was putting in my ...