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| Walking across the field to the clinic at the beginning of the day; people are already waiting |
Here's to immersion. The senior medical student who spent 2 seconds in the room with me this morning as I was interviewing a patient told me my portuguese was good enough to start seeing patients on my own. The pharmacist did come and ask me to change one dose because medications are different here, but beyond a few extended explanations for words I didn't know, it went fine.
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| At the end of the day |
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| Patient room with a microscope | | | | | | |
Two of my patients today were given new positive HIV results. The first one I had to grab a medical student to explain the results because I felt terrible stuttering through something as grave as that diagnosis, but gave the news myself for the second. I hope this gets easier as I feel terrible in feeling like a passerby of a hit-and-run that I was powerless to prevent. [Note: My now cemented goal with patients is, regardless of the amount of time it takes, to do education on disease.] Yes, I love public health in prevention of, as opposed to retroactive treatment of diseases.
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| Incredibly a soda pop that aids against malaria (it has quinine antibiotic in it!!) I had to take a picture. |
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