so here's the second post of the day. this one will deal with today, thus I decided to separate it. i also wanted to add some pictures. As I said before, we went across the line today to one of our clinics. the pictures are pretty much in reverse order. the building (actually a church) with the two cars shows is where we set up shop. you can also see us piling out of the van and applying the sunscreen and bug repellent. we had a triage area, 4 doctor areas, and a pharmacy area. today was rather slow (so I'm told) with only 35-40 people seen in 4hours. the norm is somewhere between 100-200. we switched around jobs throughout the day so no one person got stuck in a certain job all day. I started out with Brian Rha, who is a 2nd year peds resident. We saw about 3-4 pts together, most run of the mill stuff... cold, aches & pains, chest pain. As an aside, I'm a little dissapointed with the meager # of comments this blog is getting. I appreciate the time some of you take writing comments, but lets go people, I know more than 4 people read this thing (or at least I hope!). That scooters blog was some of my best stuff too! So to that end, here is a little clinical scenario you can ponder and respond with the answer. We saw a 5 year old boy who presented with abdominal pain x 2 months, + nausea, no vomiting or diarrhea, no fevers/chills/sweaths, loss of appetite, and 5lb weight loss in same time period. i'll let you know what we were thinking and subsquently course of action taken tomorrow. You'll also see Mike, who is a guy in my D-group, demonstrating the blood pressure technique perfectly. And my buddy David is also up there. We played some soccer in the street while everyone else was working :). Overall the day was lots of fun. The language barrier is a definite impedment and the translators are invaluable. We got back around 9ish tonight. Tomorrow we head out door to door in a nearby community to do evangelism and health screening (blood pressures, blood sugar, developmental screens).