Sex, Drugs, and Opportunistic Infections
Trying to ask him about the paper was arduous enough, between his constant deviation and fragmented conversation. Somehow after a fair back and forth he tells me something resembling getting…
My Journey Through the World of Humanitarian Medicine
Trying to ask him about the paper was arduous enough, between his constant deviation and fragmented conversation. Somehow after a fair back and forth he tells me something resembling getting…
Tuesday morning rolled around just as expected, and also as expected I was well enough to motor but not yet fully me. Despite my lingering illness and the soul-crushing disappointment…
The sharp whistle of wind through trees woke me up in the dark, it was pouring outside. There was a lacrosse ball in my throat eagerly trying to escape by…
Despite my fired up ruminations about living large amongst the jellies and the trees (oh I’m king of the trees), I am still a mortal man, and somewhat of a…
As the propellers rumbled forward, houses faded into specks and then were lost behind jungle as the river slithered like a serpent in all its bends and flows. The trees,…
We were up at our usual time and finished breakfast to begin clinic at 730. By 8am there was a line swollen enough to fill the whole day already. I…
Her mother follows silently and enters the room behind us. We sat down in the dark. I took off my headlamp, and using a plastic bag I found lying around,…
I woke up on the morning of our third deployment to some welcome news via email; my request to the college for a one month extension to my placement was…
There have been some interesting developments in the last few hours, and I am going to break slightly from the pre-ordained chronology of these posts for just a moment. On…
Sleep was a bit stressful for me that night, the paranoia from having already caused one partial collapse of the dilapidated schoolhouse kept me scared stiff in my hammock. In…