Apr 12
I feel like the title to this post is pretty self-explanatory. :O Lots of pretty pictures of beaches below!
Things that I learned include…the fact that “playa” means beach?
This trip was filled with amazing experiences and was a load of fun (even despite the study guilt that prevailed through much of it). …
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Apr 10
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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Apr 08
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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Apr 06
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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Apr 04
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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