My Journey Through the World of Humanitarian Medicine
Sometimes you meet people who just seem to get it. And when I say it, I don’t really know that I can define what it is, but it’s a feeling, a vocational entanglement to this life of service that can’t be explained. My one-month attachment at Lumbini Medical college in Nepal was an exercise in humility in the presence of the real heroes who help their people when so many others flee in search of more prosperous pastures. They are my inspiration. I can only hope to pass their stories along through these journals.
There was only one medicine team on service at Lumbini Medical College. The team had one attending that rotated on a daily basis (sub-optimal, but commonplace in many low staffed…
I always feel like a bit of an ass when people toot my horn about my marvelous career. Yes, I am blessed to have worked in a handful of very…