Many of the clinics on the remote Islands were built within the last decade or so. Much of the disease they have seen within this time has been what you would expect, a steady diet of hypertension, diabetes, coughs and colds. But just imagine if these clinics were older, much older. What if these tiny [...]
Archive for February, 2009
International med – Paradise Interrupted
Posted: February 27, 2009 in Med School, travelTags: Medical school, palau
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Once again I arrived at the hospital on Monday morning with no plan for the week. In a way I’m glad there isn’t a structure otherwise I might be forced to be in surgery, or something awful like Pap smears. On the flipside of that it forces me to find motivation to actually do something [...]
At the start of this week there was very little direction with concern to what I was actually supposed to be doing. Not terribly wanting to commit to one service for the week and risk being bored to death by a small uneventful patient load or being trapped in an OR, I headed over to [...]
Once a month a team from the hospital ventures out to one of the remote islands in the Palau archipelago know as Angaur. They do a variety of different things each time they go. Sometimes they do general checkups, other times they administer vaccines. Last Thursday a boat departed on a cold raining morning heading [...]
International med – Belau National Hospital
Posted: February 11, 2009 in Med School, travelTags: Medical school, palau, travel
After an exciting weekend of diving V and I made our way to our first day at the Belau national hospital. After riding our bikes through the rain we met up with our contact Dr. Dever who is the hospital administrator. He gave us a blitz tour of the hospital in between his ensemble of [...]
I’ve never been scuba diving, and I’ve always been a bit concerned about trying it because I have a couple of ill tempered Eustachian tubes. But, I was told on multiple occasions that coming to Palau and not scuba diving would be criminal, some people regard this as the best diving in the world. Part [...]
I have a lot to write about concerning the indescribable scuba diving and aquatic life in Palau, but this one deserves special attention. First, a small geology lesson, There is a large section of Palau known as the rock island. These island are limestone towers that shoot straight out of the water, they are somehow [...]
The first couple of days in Palau
Posted: February 8, 2009 in travelTags: diving, Medical school, palau
For those of you who don’t know what I’m up to here is a very brief introduction. At the end of Jan I went to my good friend natalies wedding outside of Cancun, which was amazing! From Cancun I flew to Palau, which is in Micronesia, and only took 47 hours to get to. I’m [...]
