{"id":398,"date":"2012-02-07T22:10:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T04:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2012\/02\/07\/babies-in-dumpsters-a-moral-imperative\/"},"modified":"2016-01-03T19:18:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T19:18:26","slug":"babies-in-dumpsters-a-moral-imperative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2012\/02\/07\/babies-in-dumpsters-a-moral-imperative\/","title":{"rendered":"Babies In Dumpsters &amp; A Moral Imperative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/the-surgery-uganda-ambulance.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1025\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/the-surgery-uganda-ambulance.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"530\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/the-surgery-uganda-ambulance.jpg 530w, https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/the-surgery-uganda-ambulance-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marek Banas, a medical student at Lincoln Memorial University, just returned from her INMED service-learning experience at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/service-learning\/training-sites\/the-surgery-kampala-uganda\/\">The Surgery<\/a>, a general practice clinic in Kampala, capital of Uganda. I find her account one of the most compelling I have ever read.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Surgery is potentially the best clinic in Uganda,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;People who did not have a conclusive diagnosis came from all over Uganda as well as neighboring countries to be helped by The Surgery doctors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marek continues, &#8220;Patients included wealthy Ugandans, tourists, expatriates&#8230; and abandoned infants &#8211; who were on occasion brought into The Surgery after being found on the street or in dumpsters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many healthcare professionals are enamored with the possibility of international service. Yet relatively few ultimately make this a part of their career. In reply to what motivates her, Marek says, &#8220;My desire to help the marginalized people springs from a moral imperative I found in myself years ago. I feel I have been lucky in life and it is my responsibility to share my fortune with the forgotten ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Marek Banas, a medical student at Lincoln Memorial University, just returned from her INMED service-learning experience at The Surgery, a general practice clinic in Kampala, capital of Uganda. I find her account one of the most compelling I have ever read. &nbsp; &#8220;The Surgery is potentially the best clinic in Uganda,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;People [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inmed-training-sites-in-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}