Missionary Or Mercenary?
Saturday, May 11th, 2013 Posted in INMED | No Comments »High in the mountains of Pakistan, Fatima’s chest heaved as she gasped for air. Was the cause pneumonia? Pulmonary embolism? Heart failure? James Fyffe, an American RN, scrambled to clarify her diagnosis. Simple labs and a chest X-ray provided little ...
Test Your Skills: Three Case Study Questions
Monday, April 15th, 2013 Posted in INMED | No Comments »The INMED Exploring Medical Missions Conference on May 31-June 1, will present you the chance to test your skills to the extreme. This event will include Tropical Medicine Rounds: A simulation of patient care in a resource-poor hospital with scenarios ...
ARGO, INMED and the Academy Awards
Sunday, March 10th, 2013 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Iran is “an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world,” said President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Yet in 1979 Iran broiled over into a bitter revolution that killed over a million citizens. It also provoked ...
Should You Volunteer In Haiti?
Sunday, February 10th, 2013 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western World despite being just a one-hour flight away from Florida. Thousands of American healthcare personnel venture to volunteer in Haiti each year. Should YOU be one of them? Let’s explore your questions ...
Will THESE Lives Be Saved?
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Zhangyi suffers from atherosclerosis blocking blood flow to her legs. Just taking a few steps brings on excruciating pain signaling near death of her toes and feet. But being retired and in residential care, transportation issues limit Zhangyi access to ...
An Unbearable Suffering
Friday, January 4th, 2013 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Nov 14 to Dec 14 I was again in Shenyang, northeastern China working alongside my colleagues at LIGHT - Liaoning International General Health Trainers. This is a full-time team of Chinese healthcare personnel providing care to the most vulnerable people ...
A Call To Die
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Born with his intestines lying outside his abdomen, death was imminent for a baby in West Africa. His grandmother gathered up the newborn, scrambling with hope that someone could save her grandson. Lisa Mohrman, surgeon on watch at Ghana’s Baptist ...
Can You Treat This Child’s Respiratory Distress?
Monday, November 12th, 2012 Posted in INMED | No Comments »You are volunteering in Honduras by providing vacation coverage for the clinicians whom you met at the INMED Exploring Medical Missions Conference. A young mother approaches your health center carrying a one-year old child. He is febrile and ...
Heroes Among Us
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012 Posted in INMED | No Comments »Last week I was privileged to present the INMED Cross-Cultural Healthcare Awards at the annual Cross-Cultural Healthcare Symposium. The point of these awards is to recognize the heroes among us who both model and teach this virtue of service. The ...
What’s YOUR Story Of Compassion?
Thursday, September 27th, 2012 Posted in INMED | No Comments »By what metric should we evaluate the effectiveness of healthcare among those who are poor? We could measure health data, like child mortality and life expectancy. We could also measure health knowledge or literacy – the degree to which people ...