I'm having a great time. my spanish is getting a lot better and i'm getting more comfortable with treating patients with the limited medicines we have. i now have "interns" working with me. most are premed or pre-nursing, so i'm talking to the patient in spanish, translating in english (because the two/three I've been working with this week don't speak any spanish), teaching the pre-med students about the condition/disease we're seeing while writing down my H&P note (which has history of present illness, physical exam, diagnosis and treatment) in spanish. All i can say is that its a good thing that everyones so patient around here (I saw 6 patients and did all this in 2-3 hours or so today, while at the same time Dr. Juliet (the Honduran doctor) saw the other 32 patients. :) Oh well. I"m doing my best. Good thing I've got a great God who likes working through losers like me! :)
The interns arrived two saturdays ago. there are 13 of them and they're spread out through out the various projects through out the week. They're here for 10 weeks.
Some tropical storm just came through. It's rainy season here, so normally its sunny during the day and rains in the late afternoon/evening. While the store came through it rained hard for like 72+ hours straight. All the rivers were flooded, and it was near impossible to get anywhere. Even the airport was closed for 3+ days in Tegusigalpa. But the sun came out today and yesterday for what seems like the first time in a long time...and with it the heat :) You can't win :)
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