So it was another day at clinic. I got up too early. I still haven't figured out what good it does for you to get up that early but I did anyways. It was raining today so it was a wee bit cooler than the past two days. Today was the last of the 3 days in Hue. Evidentially they (the locals) had their town hall meeting last night. The number one topic... what to say to the Americans to get medicine. Obviously they had forgotten the fact that they were going to be examined. If you walk into a room of 6 people and say you itch all over there's a good chance that one person is going to want to look at what your itching. Now, make 3 out of the six people doctors; you can expected 50% of the 6 will ask to see what's itching. With that taken into consideration do you honestly think you could sit in front of a provider & convince him/her that you had a rash, fungus, etc but not be able to produce any evidence, no. Granted, the minority were trying to pull the wool over our eyes.
There were a lot of family cases today. For instance, the baby would have pneumonia and so would the mom, or the 3 kids and parents would all have scabies (actually it's more like the chief and his whole tribe had scabies). We gave out a lot of vitamins, tylenol, albenasol.
Here are some pictures & a video for your viewing pleasure...
Debbie & I were teaching some kids how to say english words.
Michael was "americanizing" a adorable, baby, boy (aka circumcision).
The peds/pharm room
The older girl was picking a flower for the baby. They were beautiful.
Life is way simpler naked. You can just stop whenever you want and pee.
This is how they carry the kids around
P.S. Mom is an unofficial provider. Who says you have to go to extra school to be a doc.
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