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Earlier this week a 21 person surgical team from Houston joined us and shared our living space here.\u00a0 They were here to do plastic surgery and ob\/gyn cases in the hospital across the street.\u00a0 They did a bunch of cleft palate and cleft lip surgeries as well as a lot of\u00a0 ob\/gynecology stuff for patients drawn from distant parts Guatemala.\u00a0 Carrie and I spent one day helping them out which was pretty cool.\u00a0 I worked with the plastic surgeons in a few cases but mostly helped them communciate with their patients and hospital staff, helped write orders and checked up on patients.\u00a0\u00a0 I felt really useful as I had enough medical and language knowledge to really help them out.\u00a0 I\u2019m not quite fluent in Spanish, but in the field of medicine it\u2019s always been true that \u2018when no one else knows how to do it, you\u2019re the expert.\u2019<\/p>\n
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As far as clinics go, I\u2019m getting slightly more comfortable with my role in seeing patient\u2019s here.\u00a0 Dr. Pope has been having me see patients relatively independently here which was initially a bit anxiety provoking as I wasn\u2019t confident in my language skills or my medical knowledge.\u00a0 It\u2019s definitely been a challenge but it hasn\u2019t been impossible as I had feared and I\u2019ve been learning a ton.\u00a0 Dr. Pope is a very laid back preceptor and readily helps me out whenever I need it, whether for medical knowledge or for Spanish.<\/p>\n
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We had a really cool clinic in a very small rural village of Tamil this week. We drove a long way down a dirt road and parked at the top of a small valle, after which we climbed out of our truck and grabbed our large pharmacy boxes and carried them for about 15 minutes down the valley, over a small river, and then up the other side to a beautiful white church overlooking the area.\u00a0 We had a couple of premed students with us (from the aforementioned surgical team) during the day who helped us out which was pretty fun.\u00a0 We saw a lot of interesting cases and the people were really grateful, it\u2019s been my favorite clinic so far. We just finished up our two-day run at the Aselsi clinic which was a little more difficult but still a good time.<\/p>\n
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Carrie and I have been spending our late afternoons meandering around Santa Cruz del Quich\u00e9 and have been finding more and more to like about this small city, from little cafes to interesting graveyards and other sights to see.\u00a0 It\u2019s growing on us little by little and definitely not as bad as I imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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