Updates from Jennifer Kinman:
Friday, 4/2/10- Spent the day cleaning out the ward half of hoop barn. It is awesome but supplies are unorganized. Unfortunately when they moved them from the school they didn’t totally keep order. We will be …
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Team 10 Final Update
Update from Ann Soo, MD:
Today is Good Friday and the clinic is closed. We spent the day moving out medical supplies from the school to the tent barn and hoop barn to help prepare the school to re-open. It …
Team 11 making their way to Haiti
This is a big Haiti Team, maybe our biggest yet. Here is the list of names and specialites who are traveling down today and tomorrow. Our prosthetics lab and clinic will open on Monday.
Orthopedic surgeon: Bradley Adams, DO, Austin: …
Team 10 update/Smider & Job update
Update from Ann Soo, MD:
These clinic days are busy. Lot of patients getting IVF’s. Seeing typhoid, malaria, GI and respiratory bugs, headaches, asthma, HTN off meds, STD’s, newly diagnosed HIV and suspected Tb. All the pregnant patients I’ve seen
Ashley Hurt’s update from Haiti
Dr. Joel Hurt and his wife Ashley, champions of the Austin Medical Relief for Haiti efforts, are leaving PAP today to return to Austin. Here’s an update from Ashley:
We are so sad that we are leaving today. It has …
3/28/10 – Team 10 is on the ground!
Team 10 is on the ground at MOH today!
Tom Jackson, MD – emergency physician – Austin
Ann Soo, MD – internal medicine, retired – Austin
Sara Khanzadeh, PT – wound care – Austin
Rosie Wustrack, MD – orthopedic surgery …
We Live in Good Times
Post provided by Barbara Bergin, MD
It’s really amazing to see all the external fixators being used in Haiti. That surgical procedure has revolutionized the treatment of open fractures (broken bones which have penetrated through the skin or have had …
3/21/10 – Team 9, Day 1
Update from Sheryl Lucier, PA:
Good evening from Team 9 MOH Haiti. We arrived late today, after getting in to San Juan at 3am!! But we were so glad to be at the mission. Lindsey gave us the tour of …
3/21/10 – Team 9 is on the ground!
Team 9 marks a transition in Mission of Hope post-earthquake medical care. Going forward, our operative weeks will occur once per month, followed by a week of recovery for inpatient care and finishing the month with a focus on primary …
Refuge in the Haiti Hills
Poem by Maggie El-estwani, RN:
Early morning solitude in the hills –
earth browns, ochre reds, limestone white
and dotted with dusty shrub and grasses.
Cradling coffee mugs and
sitting in companionable silence and low voices at breakfast.
Some in …
