Back in Accra
Monday, October 26th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »It's been fun getting to be a tourist for the last couple of days. Accra is okay, but they REALLY hassle you here to try to sell things. It gets a bit old, so Nathan and I started trying to ...
Trip to Paga and Bolga
Sunday, October 25th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Megan here. Nathan and I got to practice being tourists this weekend! I was on call Friday but luckily didn't get called in overnight. We got up early on Saturday morning and rounded on all the medicine patients. Then we piled ...
Howdy!
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Hey everybody, Its been a couple of days since I've written (Megan's better about writing), so I thought I would update you all on things here. I'll start off a little different tonight. Case Examples (its kind of like House, MD) Sorry ...
Megan’s Second Call
Monday, October 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »My second call definitely felt eventful! Saturday (my call day) was a busy one. First off, rounding took longer than normal because Dr. Hewitt was off this weekend and we were at half strength to round (we've been dividing up the ...
Just an ordinary day
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »I felt like Nathan and I should post something, but I'm not sure that we've got a ton to report! We've settled into an easy routine here. At first I thought it was sort of strange that no one here seemed ...
First Call
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Hi, (this is nathan) So, I had my first call at the hospital yesterday (megan has hers today). At the hospital call consists of see emergencies (or what the workers think are emergencies) and seeing the people that the medical assistants ...
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Monday was an extremely busy day. I helped with Peds again. We rounded on all the kids in the Peds wards then went to clinic. For about 1-1.5 hours it was Dr. Chuck (the almost 80 yr old pediatrician volunteer), a ...
The Escarpment
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Sunday Dr. Hewitt took a group of volunteers to the Escarpment, a fairly sheer cliff face overlooking a huge plain below. 8 volunteers piled into his pickup truck for the 1.5 hour trip over pot-holed dirt roads. On the way ...
First Day of Rounds
Monday, October 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »From Megan: One thing Nathan forgot to mention was that we also talked with a Nigerian man while we were stuck for 5 hours in Casablanca's airport. At one point, he spoke up and told me that I looked African. I ...
We’re Here!
Sunday, October 4th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Hi everyone, As this is our first post (and probably the first time I've ever blogged), I think it's appropriate that it's from Africa. Megan and I had quite a time getting to our final destination. I'm guessing that anybody who's travelled ...