“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 …
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 …
Appleton and North Carolina Teams Arrive Aug 7 I had no travel glitches and arrived around noon. Scott was just finishing a case. Jerry King’s team was delayed out of Miami today and won’t be getting in until tomorrow. It’s great to see Scott again. He has done a large number of cases in the …
Foot and Ankle Society team arrives: Many of the members of the Foot and Ankle Society team arrived today. They are staying at the Auberge and most went directly there. Brian DenHartog is the leader of the team. He practices in Rapid City, South Dakota. He has several partners who are all subspecialists. He brought …
Dr Francel Alexis graduated in 2004 from the Medical School of Haiti State University. He subsequently completed a year of general internship then rendered his one year of mandatory year of social service to his country. He subsequently completed 4 years of an Orthopaedic Surgery residency at the same university where he went to medical …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
May 18 The clinic was definitely smaller. I still saw several new patients including two new untreated clubfeet age 5 and 10. The 10 y/o had bilateral very rigid clubfeet. The left has already had a talectomy (removal of the talus bone of the foot) but the right side has never been treated. I tried …