{"id":3118,"date":"2017-06-29T16:50:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T16:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2017-06-29T16:54:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T16:54:22","slug":"once-visitor-now-vision-caster-inmed-grad-in-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2017\/06\/29\/once-visitor-now-vision-caster-inmed-grad-in-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Visitor, Now Vision Caster &#8211; INMED Grad In Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"_c24 _50f4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/mary.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3131\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/mary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/mary.jpg 530w, https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/mary-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_c24 _50f4\">&#8220;I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are a substitute for joy&#8230; But then joy is never in our power, and pleasure often is. Our best havings are wantings.&#8221; This profound statement by CS Lewis may be illustrated by the life of Mary Buckler-Cairns. In the summer of 2008, while a medical student at Medical College of Wisconsin, Mary completed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/service-learning\/diplomas\/international-medicine-public-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">INMED Diploma in International Medicine &amp; Public Health<\/a>, which included two months of supervised service-learning at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/service-learning\/training-sites\/banso-baptist-hospital-cameroon\/\">Banso Baptist Hospital<\/a> in Cameroon. You may enjoy her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/graduates\/mary-buckler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">graduation photo<\/a>!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A two-month African experience may fall into CS Lewis&#8217; group of <em>pleasures<\/em>. But to sustain a career-long commitment in this environment requires finding joy in the unique challenges of culture, low-resources, family life abroad. Today, Mary and her husband are living in Cameroon, serving at Mbingo and <span class=\"_c24 _50f4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/service-learning\/training-sites\/banso-baptist-hospital-cameroon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Banso Baptist Hospital<\/a>s. What&#8217;s more, she&#8217;s mentoring INMED learners in their own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/service-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Service-Learning<\/a> experience in this nation. In addition to grasping the nuances of African healthcare, by Mary&#8217;s example I suspect these fortunate young people will also be rethinking their ideas of pleasure and deep joy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are a substitute for joy&#8230; But then joy is never in our power, and pleasure often is. Our best havings are wantings.&#8221; This profound statement by CS Lewis may be illustrated by the life of Mary Buckler-Cairns. In the summer of 2008, while a medical student at Medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inmed-grads-in-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}