Leaving Hospital Loma de Luz
Sunday, July 7th, 2019 |
On the road again. While I was finishing Monday morning patients in the clinic and seeing my inpatients off and on as time permitted, I got a text from Isaac. The driver had been able to get past the roadblocks on ...
Weekend on call
Saturday, June 29th, 2019 |
There has been a gap in my blogging for lots of reasons, but last weekend hospital and ER “on call” duties could be blamed for most of it. I scribbled notes and found myself overwhelmed by the scope of conditions that presented to ...
Bus to La Ceiba, or “No need to stand in line at Disneyland”
Sunday, June 23rd, 2019 |
A few days back I ended my blog entry with a teaser about my bus trip to La Ceiba. Unfortunately I don’t have many photos about the “bus” part of it. Yes, I was figuring out how to operate this as ...
Random Observations on a Midsummer Day in Honduras
Friday, June 21st, 2019 |
It’s easy for those of us from more affluent or high resource countries to feel that because we have more access to money and material things, we must also be ...
Stuff
Thursday, June 20th, 2019 |
Most of the time here is spent working in the clinic/hospital/ER, washing clothes (change often in this weather) and preparing food for the next day, but there is time to watch geckos on the ceiling at night and have breakfast ...
Some Views of Where I’m Working
Wednesday, June 19th, 2019 |
I'm the owner of this room this month. And just look behind the door. Sink with running water. Exam table, rolling chair. Decent number of electrical outlets (hello builders everywhere else in the world). I'm happy to call this ...
Top Ten Global Health Threats
Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 |
The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified ten of the biggest threats to global health. In preparing to teach a class at the hospital here in Honduras, it seemed more relevant to share these global health concerns rather than watch ...
Communicating with my peeps
Monday, June 17th, 2019 |
The suspension bridges are a lot of fun at 2:00 a.m. coming home from ER. It’s really dark. And I’m fairly sure that I’ll be jumping off into the dry shallow canyon below if one of those howler monkeys suddenly ...
Strange things happen at night
Thursday, June 13th, 2019 |
I had either a mouse or a bear in my room last night. Didn't do a lot of damage, but shared some of my food without permission and appeared to have made a detailed inspection of my belongings. Slept right ...
