June 27, 2007
I was beginning to lose hope in my trip the first day, but of course it was just premature homesick fright. But these past two days have been a complete 180 change. On Monday, I hung out at ob/gyn for a few hours with the chief of ob/gyn. He gave me a tour and talked with me about ob/gyn in Lhasa vs the States. Tuesday was pretty great cause I met with the Chief of Ortho who took me on grand rounds, explained radiographs, etc. He was this big guy who resembled the asian guy in Austin Powers who throws the shoe at Austin. There was a lady in her 40s who was in a terrible car accident about 4 days ago and broke her right foot and ankle and completely skinned her left foot quite deeply. I went to see the doctor clean the wound and it literally looked like something out of a Frankenstein book. I estimate around 70 stitches, but I honestly have no clue. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to take a picture.
Today, I went to optho and hung out with the chief there. Hong Kong and a few of the large enterprises there donated a train for a month and a half to give free cataract surgeries to the people of Tibet. They started at the end of June and will be continuing throughout July. They’ve already performed 200 surgeries. So next week I’m going with the Chief of Optho to the train station to help evaluate the patients and whether they meet the criteria for the free operation. I’m pretty excited about this connection especially since I read about it online before I came. Wahoo!
For the next few days and beginning of next week, I think I’m just going to stick with optho and ortho and not dabble too much. Apparently, a lot of people get severe altitude sickness. I think 25% of patients in optho today were travelers there because of altitude sickness. One guy had to be hospitalized. Now I feel pretty lucky about being able to adapt pretty well.
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