First - Pics are up! It was very difficult to pick from the 500 photos I've taken but I tried to select a few that would be representative. I also attempted to match with the blog so I posted with each entry.
Second - I have an icky chest cough/cold. No fun.
In Pune right now! We left yesterday and its about a 4 hour drive from Jamkhed. We squeezed 12 people into a 10 person van, not the most comfortable but normal for India, in fact, had we been Indian we would have put about 5 more people in! Pune is a pretty big city comparatively and we are staying at a nice place. Last night we went to dinner at a restaurant called "Flags," definitely the nicest place I've eaten so far. Huge menu with dishes from all over the world. Our eyes were all much bigger than our stomachs for some non-Indian food so of course we had tons left over but it was yuummy.
After dinner we headed to a club at a really nice hotel called "Scream - The Club." Now while I trust and rely on the Lonely Planet to get me through this trip, there is one place they have let me down. The book says to only bring conservative, loose fitting clothes. While I haven't necessarily agreed with that statement from the beginning, its been okay. However, last night, when I was forced to go to a trendy club in linen pants and flip flops while the rest of the population looked like they were in London or New York, I did feel like the book had led me astray. Anyone that knows me understands why this was a difficult thing for me, I did overcome and had a great time, but for future trips anywhere in the world will always remember at least one fun Western outfit :) Indian music is so fun to dance too and there was the occasional western song too. The club was interesting because it was "couples only" meaning girls can enter, but if you are a guy you have to come with another girl.
Today we are touring around Pune and hopefully doing a little shopping. I'm trying to find a pair of tennis shoes because I've been walking a lot around Jamkhed and my sandals just aren't cutting it. Plus they just opened a boxing gym and I'm going to start doing that some mornings (assuming I like it...)
The last few days at the Project have been great. We continue to learn about the principles of primary health care and the history of that movement. We are also doing some personal development stuff, thinking about how we each ended up here at Jamkhed. Also, I've gotten to spend some time at the hospital. On Friday I got to observe three different surgeries (partly because there are two tables in one room and they were operating on people at the same time...). I saw a breast lumpectomy, a hydroseal (Sarah M...I assume you know what this is...GROSS), and a fistula repair (also gross). I won't describe those but let's just say that happened in places you wouldn't want surgery. It was a great experience and I was totally fine...some of the med students got faint and neausous I was good though. The conditions are astonishing and the US would have a fit about this OR. Even though not considered sterile by our standards, the rate of infection is actually really low.
Yesterday a few of us got to do "out patient" with Dr. Shoba. Saturday is market day so they get a lot of villagers coming in. We saw a woman with advanced stage cervical cancer, so sad. We actually got to see it and at that stage its not a good prognosis. Also got to diagnose a TB patient and listen to her lungs. All very cool clinical stuff. Anyway, need to do some other stuff since I have an actual good internet connection here in Pune. Hope all is well there!
Second - I have an icky chest cough/cold. No fun.
In Pune right now! We left yesterday and its about a 4 hour drive from Jamkhed. We squeezed 12 people into a 10 person van, not the most comfortable but normal for India, in fact, had we been Indian we would have put about 5 more people in! Pune is a pretty big city comparatively and we are staying at a nice place. Last night we went to dinner at a restaurant called "Flags," definitely the nicest place I've eaten so far. Huge menu with dishes from all over the world. Our eyes were all much bigger than our stomachs for some non-Indian food so of course we had tons left over but it was yuummy.
After dinner we headed to a club at a really nice hotel called "Scream - The Club." Now while I trust and rely on the Lonely Planet to get me through this trip, there is one place they have let me down. The book says to only bring conservative, loose fitting clothes. While I haven't necessarily agreed with that statement from the beginning, its been okay. However, last night, when I was forced to go to a trendy club in linen pants and flip flops while the rest of the population looked like they were in London or New York, I did feel like the book had led me astray. Anyone that knows me understands why this was a difficult thing for me, I did overcome and had a great time, but for future trips anywhere in the world will always remember at least one fun Western outfit :) Indian music is so fun to dance too and there was the occasional western song too. The club was interesting because it was "couples only" meaning girls can enter, but if you are a guy you have to come with another girl.
Today we are touring around Pune and hopefully doing a little shopping. I'm trying to find a pair of tennis shoes because I've been walking a lot around Jamkhed and my sandals just aren't cutting it. Plus they just opened a boxing gym and I'm going to start doing that some mornings (assuming I like it...)
The last few days at the Project have been great. We continue to learn about the principles of primary health care and the history of that movement. We are also doing some personal development stuff, thinking about how we each ended up here at Jamkhed. Also, I've gotten to spend some time at the hospital. On Friday I got to observe three different surgeries (partly because there are two tables in one room and they were operating on people at the same time...). I saw a breast lumpectomy, a hydroseal (Sarah M...I assume you know what this is...GROSS), and a fistula repair (also gross). I won't describe those but let's just say that happened in places you wouldn't want surgery. It was a great experience and I was totally fine...some of the med students got faint and neausous I was good though. The conditions are astonishing and the US would have a fit about this OR. Even though not considered sterile by our standards, the rate of infection is actually really low.
Yesterday a few of us got to do "out patient" with Dr. Shoba. Saturday is market day so they get a lot of villagers coming in. We saw a woman with advanced stage cervical cancer, so sad. We actually got to see it and at that stage its not a good prognosis. Also got to diagnose a TB patient and listen to her lungs. All very cool clinical stuff. Anyway, need to do some other stuff since I have an actual good internet connection here in Pune. Hope all is well there!
1 comment:
Law school...MPH school...med school! Such great clinical experience for you! So glad you got to post some pics - I can't wait to see the rest.
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