Post provided by Barbara Bergin, MD
I spent the summer between my first and second years of medical school in Mexico City, working with an ophthalmologist who did some volunteer work for the sugar plantations. We saw some incredible stuff. …
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2/23/10 – Team 5, Day 2
Update from Dr Lee:
11 surgical cases today: wrist fx, manipulated ex fixs, and mulitple skin grafts
6 cases planned for tomorrow
4 cases on Thursday and 1 on Friday as of now
Waiting on cases to mature from Mennonite …
2/22/10 – Team 5, Day 1
Update from Alicia Michalz, CST:
The team’s travel was long, picking up members along the way. Finally all 18 of us boarded the last plane headed for PAP. We took a quick stop into The Bahamas to refuel and came …
The Need for Prosthetics in Haiti
Post provided by Marc DeHart, MD
Seems like the acute care mission of the big injuries is slowing down, and it’ll be good to hear Dr. Smoot’s thoughts as he returns from his week of caring for the Haitians. A …
Team 5 on the ground
Team 5:
Dirk Steven Gesink, MD- orthopedic surgery, Phoenix, AZ
Bob Shively, MD- orthopedic surgery, retired
Ed Styslinger, MD- anesthesia, Star Anesthesia, San Antonio
Jeff Henderson, MD- emergency medicine, Dell Childrens
Jessica McGraw, RN- Seton Northwest Hospital
Alicia Michalz, CST- …
2/19/10 – Team 4, Day 6
Update from Diana McKeon:
I wasn’t there to witness, but right before dinner last night we had a trauma- mom and baby were hit from behind by a vehicle while walking down the road. Baby was thrown and only suffered
2/18/10 – Team 4, Day 5
Update from Diana McKeon:
Saw little twin babies today- malnourished, poor little things are HIV positive. Don’t know what their future will be. Saw another baby 8 months old with scabies and sores all over her feet …and legs. So
2/17/10 – Team 4, Day 4
Update from Diana McKeon:
Dr. Sandy’s morning started with a bang. Right as clinic was starting, she was called to the ER room for a very sick 32 year old man. He presented with three weeks of fever, vomiting, diarrhea, …
2/16/10 – Team 4, Day 3
Update from Diana McKeon:
Late last night we found out that today was going to be another national holiday- carnival aka mardi gras. That meant clinic was closed, Haitian workers off duty, surgeries were still on for our ward patients
2/15/10- Team 4, Day 2
Update from Josh Livingston, M.D., Star Anesthesia
Today we woke up ready to hit things full force. OR team has proven itself resourceful. Anesthesia delays. Got four OR ortho cases done, plus a impromptu pediatric urology case by Dr. Schmidt
