Know Your Community
Monday, December 28th, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Since returning from Angola, I've been caring for patients at Research Medical Center, here in Kansas City. Very often, they present with fever. Here, the causes I first think of are influenza, bronchitis, and the common cold. But in Angola, I'd ...
Isolated on Christmas Day
Friday, December 25th, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »This Christmas Day I am thinking of INMED's faculty living and serving in some of the world's most marginal communities: Tim Myrick (Middle East), Earl Hewett (Ghana), Steve Foster (Angola), Dennis Palmer (Cameroon), Paul Gray (Ethiopia), Jean Young (Ghana), Charlie ...
Who Would Commit A Year?
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »I am inspired this morning to receive an application from an internal medicine specialists who is interest in completing INMED's International Medicine Fellowship. Imagine, committing a year of your life to living and working at INMED's training site in Cameroon - Banso ...
Inspiring Words from CURE Hospital
Saturday, December 19th, 2009 Posted in INMED | No Comments »This morning I'm listening to NPR describe the work of CURE Hospitals. They are primarily providing orthopedic care to physically disabled children in the poorest nations. I was just about moved to tears as I reflected on the fact that ...
The ‘Stream’ Of Water-Borne Disease - Angola 2009 In Review
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | No Comments »When I first moved to the city of Huambo in central Angola I myself developed a severe case of dysentery, as did my family. Solution? I had a well dug in my front yard - pictured here with the concert ...
Will He See Again? - Angola Day 23
Saturday, December 12th, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | No Comments »Image the pain of slowly loosing your eye sight, knowing that shortly you will be utterly dependent upon others to care for your most basic needs - pain like that experienced by the man in the photo above who is ...
Exploring the Wilderness - Angola Day 21
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | No Comments »One of the pleasant characteristics of medical life in Angola is that the evening are generally quiet - except for the C-section Monday at 4 AM that just could not wait for daylight. Weekday afternoons are also predictably tranquil. I ...
Sight To The Blind - Angola day 19
Sunday, December 6th, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | No Comments »Pictured above is Steve Collins. This remarkable man began his career as a pastor in Newfoundland. As one of the few educated people in the area, Steve shortly discovered the town's people bringing all their sick to him. So off ...
Truly A Hard Life - Angola Day 17
Saturday, December 5th, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | No Comments »Earlier this week I was talking with a 35-year old Angolan lady who lost her left leg to a land mine 10 years ago. Angola was once home to the highest per capita concentration of land mines in the world! ...
Self-Sacrificing To Care For Their Own - Angola Day 15
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | 1 Comment »My thoughts often turn to the men and women who serve at Kalukembe Hospital. Located about 100 miles NE of Lubango, Kalukembe is a typical, low-resource, isolated town on the Angolan savannah. There the disease of poverty are more apparent, ...