I’m editing this post to explain the title. In our experience here, we have been lamenting that even though this is Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of research actually being conducted here.
Yesterday at MGMC&RI we finally met someone who was happy to be here and was doing something that resembles research. The Community Health department deals with issues of sanitation, hygiene, and health education, and it seems like they have pretty extensive programs in place.
The AP we talked to was excited to talk about the programs he was involved in, and had been here for (gasp) an entire year with no current plans of leaving.
Today, in typical Med-Peds fashion, Paras, Alicia, and I switched over to the medicine side and rounded in the ICUs with Tim. In the middle of rounds, the door flew open, the Casualty doctor ran in wheeling a young woman who had suffered a snake bite. As we watched her saliva frothing from around her mouth lying there almost unresponsive, Tim wisely wondered if her airway was intact. A bit of coughing with insertion of an OP airway told us that it was. They sent the intern down to the Pharmacy to see if we could get Antivenin. They usually give 10 vials at a few hundred rupees a pop.
Other things:
-Six American adults in one auto-rickshaw is a little cramped
-We ran out of gas on the way home last night. Fortunately there was an open gas station on the way. They had all their sodas lined up along the wall–a glass wall…which I’m sure gets mighty hot in direct sunlight.
-I might actually start enjoying a good cognac here and there.
-Alas, we have our first true GI casualty of the trip. Brooke is currently back at the dorm taking Cipro and Pepto-Bismol.
-no stache for me
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