Stories in Medicine

I am a physician practicing Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. This blog chronicles my life first as a medical student, then as a resident. It is about stories of medicine. If you think 'Scrubs' or 'Grey's Anatomy' tells the stories of a resident's life, then here is what it is really like (for one resident, anyway). This blog’s contents conform to HIPAA guidelines. No patient information is released and information that can be used for identification has been changed.

Sunday, February 06, 2011

Day 1 - El Salvador Mission Trip 2011 - Guadalupe

Boys and girls were housed in separate dormitories. We (the boys) slept in a dormitory on the top of a hill with a beautiful view of the lake.

The castle like roof at the bottom of this picture is of of dormitory.

That evening, while the evangelism team learned their skits and dances (that they would perform during the days when we would do our medical work), we packed lots of medicines, counting out 30 day supplies of various pills, dispensing out about 60 cc of various syrups into bottles. (You can see a couple of the bags in which we brought the stuff in the back.