Archive for March, 2017

Day 21

Thursday, March 23rd, 2017 |

I feel like I’m just settling in. My body is tired at a normal hour, I’m comfortable hopping on bodas, I have my routine down at the hospital.   Yet I leave on Saturday night.   Part of me still feels like I got here, but I’ve also gotten used to the diseases that were […]

Day 14 (part 2)

Wednesday, March 15th, 2017 |

I went back to work this week. Yesterday there was a change in schedule so I worked with Drs. Conrad and Scott. I genuinely enjoy seeing the difference in teaching styles and modes of practice. Where Giuseppe had me leading patient encounters, Dr. Scott did more of a top-down style where I shadowed him and […]

Day 14 (part 1)

Wednesday, March 15th, 2017 |

Made a full recovery thanks to the Cipro my travel clinic sent me with. As an aside, no travel clinic is the same and a good one is worth its weight in gold, while others will leave you feeling robbed. As a matter of professionalism I won’t name the clinic in question, but when approaching […]

Day 8

Thursday, March 9th, 2017 |

I’m currently laid up at the house in Makindye recovering from some kind of intestinal bug. I developed some loose stools on Saturday but it was all pretty manageable until it took off yesterday. The rest of the house got something too, it might be a two-in-one infection. So I took the day off and […]

Day 3

Saturday, March 4th, 2017 |

I arrived late Thursday night, a decidedly bad time to arrive if you haven’t set any internet up yet and you promised your girlfriend you’d let her know you were safe. I ended up borrowing a housemate’s computer the next afternoon to send her an email… But I did arrive safely, and the driver recommended […]

Him?

Saturday, March 4th, 2017 |

My name is Jason Gulati, I’m a fourth-year medical student at AT Still University in Kirksville, Missouri (located right in the beating heart of Middle America). I’m finishing my clerkships in metropolitan Detroit, Michigan, once the bustling capital of the auto industry now racked with poverty as the industry collapsed and the inhabitants were abandoned. […]