Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Category: Musings
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The hidden perils of progress
Read More: The hidden perils of progressGood morning! my posts have been fairly scarce this trip. As I’ve looked back on previous blogs, I don’t know if there’s a whole lot more to add […]
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What Exactly is the Plan?
Read More: What Exactly is the Plan?Day 2 What exactly is the plan? As always, medical work in a foreign hospital always brings its ups and downs. Today, I’m considering the ethical questions that […]
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How does it all fit?
Read More: How does it all fit?Week two is upon us as we shift from new arrival to a more comfortable daily routine. Dr. Ani and Josef certainly have begun to recognize the recurrent […]
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Closure
Read More: ClosureWe are all back in the United States. It is somewhat hard to comprehend the this trip – almost 3 years in planning – has come to an […]
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Managing expectations
Read More: Managing expectationsIt seems often that my writings here stray to the idea of expectations and realities of working in a resource limited environment. Each week here, even with the […]
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The Volunteer Blues
Read More: The Volunteer BluesI knew it would happen. It was just a matter of when. The group arrives full of energy and dreams and then each day finds those plans slowly […]
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Final Introductions
Read More: Final IntroductionsHow many times can you say hello? Greetings and salutations are thus far the focus of this blog! Years ago – but not too many years ago – […]
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Cancer sucks.
Read More: Cancer sucks.Practicing medicine, I have seen illness, trauma, disease, and death. But cancer is the trump card. It doesn’t attack the old and frail. It doesn’t care who, what, […]
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Beginnings
Read More: BeginningsWhere to begin? I suppose the journey begins with fleshing out the idea of when we come to it. In July 2018, my family and I traveled to […]