Preventable but Deadly
Friday, January 15th, 2010 Posted in INMED | No Comments »So far since we have been here two children have presented with Tetanus at the hospital. There is treatment available for tetanus if the patient arrives at the hospital during the early ...
Snowman in Ghana?
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Posted in INMED | No Comments »There is a physician that has been here with her family since mid-December. They decided to make their Christmas in Ghana feel more like home by building their ...
Saturday - What a Day
Monday, January 11th, 2010 Posted in INMED | 3 Comments »After rounds yesterday morning, Dr. Joel Dickens ( a full-time OB/GYN at BMC) took some of the volunteers hiking. Although Nalerigu is consider desert the terrain is beautiful. The area we went ...
Ghana – 3 “In Nalerigu”
Saturday, January 9th, 2010 Posted in INMED | 1 Comment »As mentioned in my previous post we have arrived in Nalerigu yesterday safely. We woke up around 4am, arrived at the Accra domestic airport and traveled to Tamale. ...
Ghana - 2
Friday, January 8th, 2010 Posted in INMED | 2 Comments »Meeting A True Hero Yes, we have arrived in Nalerigu, Ghana safely! Lailah was so good with the trip and putting up with us dragging her half way around ...
Ghana Journal Entry - 1
Monday, January 4th, 2010 Posted in INMED | 2 Comments »Saint Augustine once stated, “The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page”. St. Augustine knew that the Creator spoke the World in place, and did so as if reading His own manuscript. Thus ...
A QUIZ IF YOU DARE
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Medical care is to health care as the US President is to____________A. Commander in Chief B.Executive Branch C. Government
A “Crisis” in Perspective
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »According to the Newspapers, News Agencies, and yes the President and Congress of the United States of America, the US is in a continual state of crisis. Our economy is failing, our health care system is in collapse, and the ...
Mother Teresa Had an Army
Friday, September 4th, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Most people seem to know who Mother Teresa is. If you ask someone why Mother Teresa is so well known the typical answer would be “her work with the home of the dying in Calcutta with street people”, or “her ...
International Medicine in Your Backyard
Thursday, August 20th, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »There is this myth that international medicine requires a health care student or professional to travel to a distant land and then jump in a 4 wheel drive monster truck to drive thru a rural rough terrain, full of dangerous ...