Today was a fun filled, long, but exciting day. We spent the morning and afternoon seeing patients. During the morning session I had the opportunity to do some OMM on a few patients, which was really exciting. During the afternoon… Read More ›
Month: August 2016
Clinic day 3 – Tamara
I was well enough for clinic today and first up for me was pediatrics. I was a little apprehensive at first because it was my first patient room where I really had to take and HPI and do an exam… Read More ›
Clinic day 3 – Laura
Sunday, August 7, 2016 Today was our third day of clinic in Iquitos. My personal rotations were in OB-GYN and dermatology. I was excited to spend the morning learning how to do a proper pelvic examination with Dr. Wittich. If… Read More ›
First day 0f clinic – Scott
Today was the day that many of us have long anticipated. Even though we had a long day yesterday, everyone was wide-awake this morning and ready for our first day of clinic. We had heard that patients would begin lining up the… Read More ›
Catching up with Scott from Day 1
07/31 – Day 1: Much more of the day was spent at the airport than I had originally planned. Our 2:00 flight from Detroit to Atlanta was delayed until 3:30, so we had a very small window of time to find our… Read More ›
Double Rainbow – Rebekah
August 7, 2016 Another great day at clinic! I started working in the Emergency Department rounding with Dr. Reidy in the morning. We were able to use the portable ultrasound machine on a pregnant patient and we found the fetal… Read More ›
Clinic days – Bernat
Another day at the clinic where we got to help patients communicate with doctors. I worked with General Medicine and X-rays. There were hundreds of people who needed care and we got to help many of them. Andrew, my roommate… Read More ›
Why rocks? – Andrew
We travelled to Iquitos and we carried over 100 kg of rocks. What drove us to stuff our backs with gravel? Today, we woke up at 4:30 am for flight to Iquitos. In the morning we were surprised because we… Read More ›
Travel to Peru – Tomas
I’m Tomas, and I was assigned to write this blog post about our journey to Lima after being invited to this incredible opportunity. I was one of the four people who started the trip in Barcelona, along with Bernat, Anna… Read More ›