Clinic Day 2

So we arose this morning around 5:30 in order to make the trek to our little mountain mission clinic. It was another interesting day. Cristy and I had a room of our own to see patients. We were cranking 'em out much faster today! It was amazing how much our spanish has improved! I think confidence helped too.

Not as many kids with pneumonia today and not as many prenatal visits. We did see a kid with a pretty nasty parasite emesis (along the same lines as ascaris lumbricoides if you're so inclined to know more...obviously we don't know the species but in the same family of organism.) If you have a weak stomach don't go looking that up....otherwise, we have pictures!! (No posting on the website though...but maybe I'll put up a link.)

Your questions: they have no lab capabilities aside from a basic urinalysis. Pretty much every diagnosis is made clinically and based on what is common here. If more is needed then patients are sent to a clinic or hospital in town. They can give IV therapy. We had to rig up 2 liters today for this fellow with a right lower lobe pneumonia (at least that's what my physical exam told me...no x-rays here!) We'll find out about Hanna. We actually never asked about her.

Enough!! We're off to work out. Our legs are still pretty weak from our volcano hike on Sunday, but we're determined to stay in good shape here.

Loads of tortillas and lots of frijoles every day aren't part of the South Beach diet!