Day 6 – June 4, 2015

Another morning in the clouds at Pasam Trust

Another morning in the clouds at Pasam Trust

“There can’t be more,” is what I thought to myself as I was throwing up in the bath room at the clinic. And…. Yet more came. My first experience of traveling abroad I guess. But after getting it all out of my system, literally, I felt much better in the evening. I sadly missed a very interesting surgery where Dr. Mas removed a lipoma mass from a patient, but I hope to see more in the weeks to come. Some of the students were upset with the lack of sophistication in the surgery based on our experiences of medicine in the United States. However, this medicine is all the people have here. The next couple weeks will be eye opening into some of the pains of the health care system in India. My responsibility as a student will be to look at the system as a whole, and figure out all of the lessons I can learn each and every day. Goodnight from the tropics of India.

Lipoma removal surgery

Lipoma removal surgery

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