June Winds Down June 26 It is Nathan’s birthday today so Jeannie made waffles for everybody. Summer and Tim brought us a waffle iron and strawberries so we feasted. It was really good. I had planned to get some work done on the taptap today so focused on that for several hours. Dr. Wilkerson is …
On the ground report from Dr. Dietrich
A day trip to Kenscoff June 22 The hall outside the clinic was more crowded today than I have ever seen it. There were a huge number of clubfoot cases. Dr Bob Cady was here to supervise. Things were very crowded so we split up and started with OR cases as well as the clinic. …
On the ground report from Dr. Dietrich
May 27 Our 88 y/o lady with the intertrochanteric hip fracture was finally cleared by the internist for surgery. At last the hillbilly traction was used for its main intended purpose. I set the traction and the C-arm and the patient up just like ED had showed me. It worked perfectly. I took pictures to …
On the ground report from Dr. Dietrich
Fixing legs, changing lives Polio patient in Cabaret May 22 This turned out to be a very special day. I had wanted to visit my patient with the partially paralyzed leg from having polio as a child. Today was the day. Emmanuel arranged for Stephanie’s dad to drive us to where he lives near the …