{"id":67,"date":"2009-09-30T10:11:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T17:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2009\/09\/30\/saving-lives-in-angola\/"},"modified":"2014-07-30T20:06:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T20:06:31","slug":"saving-lives-in-angola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2009\/09\/30\/saving-lives-in-angola\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning To Save Lives in Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Dr. Pamela Smith in action at Kalukembe Hospital\" href=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2009\/09\/img_01717.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2009\/09\/img_01717.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Pamela Smith in action at Kalukembe Hospital\" \/><\/a>I so enjoyed talking this week with\u00a0Pamela Smith, a physician from Chicago who completed the clinical experience for the\u00a0INMED International Medicine Certificate\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/service-learning\/training-sites\/lubango-evangelical-medical-center-angola\/\">Lubango Evangelical Medical Center<\/a>\u00a0in Angola, southern Africa. \u201cThis was so very different than any medical mission I\u2019ve ever experienced. Before, I was the leader, though really knew almost nothing about the nation where I was serving nor the health needs of the community. But in Angola, under the guidance of Dr. Steve Foster and his Angolan colleagues, I was truly learning. The teaching was superb. The medical ministry was already well established. And in this organized environment, I discovered that I had both so much to give, so much to teach, and so many lives to save. I also discovered that rapidly caught on to the particular needs and nuances of Angola. I made the right choice to go with INMED!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I so enjoyed talking this week with\u00a0Pamela Smith, a physician from Chicago who completed the clinical experience for the\u00a0INMED International Medicine Certificate\u00a0at\u00a0Lubango Evangelical Medical Center\u00a0in Angola, southern Africa. \u201cThis was so very different than any medical mission I\u2019ve ever experienced. Before, I was the leader, though really knew almost nothing about the nation where I [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","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=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}