Selian Lutheran Hospital

though all my pics are of animals, the most important part of my trip and biggest part timewise was working at the hospital. here are a few of the docs and interns there at Selian Lutheran Hospital. i didn't take a ton of pictures, because i really don't like being a tourist. working at the hospital was a really cool, but frustrating experience. for one thing, the diagnostic capacity isn't very great-we didn't even have bacterial cultures. so, we'd figure out what we thought they might have that we could treat, and we might treat empirically for all of the above. its a very different approach to medicine and its tough coming from the US to get used to the differences. i learned a lot from the docs there, though. they really do have a very broad range of knowledge as there really are no specialists--they see everything.

i did manage to get one pic of me with a real live tanzanian baby patient. when i did peds, i really did want to be like angelina jolie and take them all home with me. danielle's mom said she didn't want a bracelet as a souvenir, what she really wanted was a tanzanian baby. and with their preciously huge eyes and "hello" choruses when you walk down the street, you can't help but be put in a good mood. really, the people in tanzania are amazingly friendly and will invite you in for tea or try to chat with you on the street in some mix of swahili and english. the people were definitely my favorite part of my trip, although underrepresented in photos.

colleen, esther and i did a day clinic where we were the docs and we had our own translators. we had a mini-formulary of about 10 drugs that we had on hand, so were a bit (okay quite a bit) limited in what we could actually do for the patients. fortunately, many patients just need ibuprofen.