Go Slow.
Saturday, February 28th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »caye caulker is amazing. no cars allowed. only bikes, golf carts, feet. middle of the ocean. a destination all should consider who are on a budget. unless you are looking for huge waves, or waves at all:). this place is ...
quatro casas (4 things)
Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »1. wednesday erin and I went to cahal pech village, a resort named after mayan ruins in the area. they have a great pool (the hotel, not the ruins) and we went to lounge by it and have some drinks. ...
Puppy.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »sometime between one year and six months ago, a dog that looks beagle-esque adopted the hospital as her home. Her name is puppy. she is a very cute dog and well mannered. she never comes inside the hospital or the ...
SANDFLIES!!!!
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »sandflies, aka no see-ums, had a party on me at the marina where we parked the sailboat. those little bugs bite hard... it hurts initially and then turns to an itch. After we got back from sailing, I put on ...
bad case of the mondays
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »this weekend was a great one, very hard to come back to the clinic this morning... on saturday erin and I went canoeing up (yes up) the Macal River. It separates the twin cities (san ignacio and santa elena).... our ...
lost in translation
Friday, February 20th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »only had one patient in clinic this am... an english speaking local woman with two weeks of pain in her right calf when walking.... doctora measured her calves and found that the right calf was a centimeter larger in circumference ...
BIG PHARMA, in Belize?!?!?!?!?!?
Thursday, February 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »before I get into the meat of this blog... I'd like to point out that in the internal medicine doctora's office, I sit right next to a old blood pressure device that has mercury in it. AHHHHHHHH!!!!! When I was ...
childhood phobias and dislikes… dispelled. for now…
Thursday, February 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »In psychiatry and psychology, there are many techniques for helping patients to work through phobias... one technique for example is desensitization. It works like this... say I'm scared of, um, flying. the doctor might (over time) have you look at ...
case of the tuesdays
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »the clinic is very slow this afternoon... the hospital is very, very small... 8 rooms, 3 of them with patients this am... one of the patients is a 70-something year old woman who has been in and out of the ...
happy hallmark creation day everyone!!!
Saturday, February 14th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »erin and I are off this am to Actun Tunichil Muknal cave (I practiced memorizing it for about two minutes yesterday), or ATM for short... old mayan ritual cave... sacrificed body inside! eeek. the tour company is providing lunch, and ...