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Field Day #4 in Rural Seibo

Last clinic day! We went to a super, super rural part of Seibo today and managed to see everyone there as well (tis a plus, because I hate having to turn anyone away). We saw 150 patients and I got to witness several pretty unique cases.

We saw a case of what we think was …

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Field Day #3 in rural Seibo

We went to a different clinic today and decided to just keep seeing patients until there was no one left. I shadowed our pediatrician and got a ton more experience in taking histories and performing physical exams in children and babies (as well as some more adults). (I’d never done a physical exam on a …

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Field Day #2 in Rural Seibo

We returned to the same clinic in rural Seibo to finish the work we’d started. I got to follow/help one of the Dominican doctors that I’d requested the day before because she was fluent in both Spanish and English and I’d seen her taking the time to explain the situations and cases to my friend …

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Field Day #1 in Rural Seibo

Our first two field days were spent at a clinic in the sugarcane fields with no running water or electricity. We set up a pharmacy, a peds clinic and several rooms with physicians both from the DR and from WV. My assignment on the first day was taking all the vitals with two first-years. (This …

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Hato Mayor

Advance warning! I’m pretty much going to be writing over the course of the next week-ish about the medical service trip I went on. Part of it may be in present tense because I wrote it while I was over there. I compiled most of the billions of pictures that were taken into collages of …

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