• 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


    We 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


    It 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


    I 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


    How 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.


    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


    Where 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 […]

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