{"id":23,"date":"2014-09-18T04:23:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T04:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/jamesnorman\/?p=23"},"modified":"2014-10-26T15:46:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T15:46:21","slug":"23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/jamesnorman\/2014\/09\/18\/23\/","title":{"rendered":"Forth Week At Loma de Luz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/jamesnorman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/09\/hospital_loma_de_luz_honduras_home_visit-e1412364011375.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/jamesnorman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/09\/hospital_loma_de_luz_honduras_home_visit-e1412364011375.jpg\" alt=\"hospital_loma_de_luz_honduras_home_visit\" width=\"530\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I traveled abroad, working with clinics as a medical student, I remember feeling that perhaps the level of that we were delivering was less than what might be done back home. \u00a0But for every situation we were always able to provide care that was adequate. \u00a0When the acuity of illness is more pronounced the disparities become glaringly and painfully obvious. \u00a0The absence of NICU. The inability to perform dialysis. \u00a0The boundaries of poverty and distance that prevent access to timely care and appropriate diagnostic tests. \u00a0A fractured healthcare system where past records from half a dozen physician encounters and procedures all across the country are simply not available.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a physician here, one can feel hamstrung. \u00a0There is a limit to what can be done. \u00a0The rest is left to God and prayer. \u00a0It is difficult to practice medicine in the developing world. \u00a0How even more difficult it must if one did not have hope in a world after this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I traveled abroad, working with clinics as a medical student, I remember feeling that perhaps the level of that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/jamesnorman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/jamesnorman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/jamesnorman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/jamesnorman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/jamesnorman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/jamesnorman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/jamesnorman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/jamesnorman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/jamesnorman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}