Before we head back home tomorrow to normalcy and cold weather, I just wanted to share a few last thoughts with all of you who have been reading our blogs faithfully. This has been a learning experience for us in every sense of the word – we were able to see disaster victims first-hand and [...]
As our mission winds down, our chances to do hands on patient care dwindle. A few days ago, it appeared that we had a real chance to do patient care while setting up an intermediate unit at the Haitian border funded in part by Pan American Health Organziation and faciliated by Dominican Health Ministry. A place to receive, stabilize [...]
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