First day! After a brief orientation, I started working by shadowing one of the staff doctors, Dr. Ashley. We saw about 15 pediatric patients in the morning, and around another 10 patients in the afternoon.
Overall, I’m really impressed with the clinic. There are a lot of people on staff at the clinic, and overall it seems organized and well run. There are two floors and each floor has its own registration and triage. The top floor is peds, OB and gyn. Downstairs is basically everything else, or anyone that comes in the afternoon.
They use a fairly simple but effective EHR. Ordering medicine in their EHR is really interesting. They have all of the medicines they carry in the drop down menu, but they list how many bottles or tubes they have of each medicine next to the choice. So you can easily see what the pharmacy has.
After work today, I went snorkeling with two of the other volunteers, and then ate BALEADAS at an amazing little restaurant across from where we all live. It. Was. Amazing. And it was so cheap! One simple baleada was 15 limpera’s, which is just under 1$. It is a thicker flour tortilla, filled with beans, and their hard cheese. It was so good! I think we will be regulars there! The woman who cooks doesn’t speak English, but her son does. He helps run the restaurant, and is a good sport and lets me practice my Spanish with him. The store next door has so many local amazing items, including the hard cheese I’ve been looking for, and CHILE LIMON Chips! I am so happy we found this restaurant and store. They are so cheap and so close by!