Wisconsin September, Haitian October Oct 2 Arrived back in Haiti. Ed Miller is back for his second stint helping me. He will be here for 10 days. There are two students from DO school in Colorado here for three weeks. Dr Pat Yoon’s team covered the last two weeks while we were gone. They left …
On the ground report from Dr. Dietrich
Go, PACK, GO! Sept 12 We had another quite large clinic today. In addition, we had a couple of cases including a hip hemiarthroplasty that I did with ZJ. It turned out to be another fairly long day. Nathan and Amy came back today. He still has the symptoms of dizziness when he stands. I …
On the ground report from Dr. Dietrich
“Bonjour, Haitien!” Aug 28 It has been two weeks since I made the hole in the roof over the small balcony outside our room for the AC and it still hasn’t been hooked up. At least a third of the nights are hot enough that it makes sleeping somewhat difficult. Sometimes I will read for …
On the ground report from Dr. Dietrich
A Tour on the USNS Comfort Aug 22 The big Monday clinic went fairly well in spite of our xray machine not booting up. We brought the C-arm out to the front of the OR and kept it plugged in to the invertor and used it for most of the films we needed. It worked …