Team 6B is home.
Started the day by waking up to a failed generator. “Pancake Steve” flipped breakfast for all. We made rounds with Diane Cable. Had to take Jolanda (AKA) back after her wound opened up, it’s probably colonized (infected). We used our first real VAC. Valeri is still under weather so adminstration canceled the [...]
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Returning home from an impactful experience
March 3, 2010 – 9:23 pm
Team 6B’s last night in Haiti
March 2, 2010 – 10:02 pm
Ki jan ou rele? (What is your name?)
Our last night in Croix de Bouquets.
Today we fixed our first acute fracture, a 13-year-old who fractured his femur playing soccer. First case we were able to use our brand new large fragment set of screws (which was complete!!) that had been hand delivered by Tony, a friend [...]
Helping a well-oiled machine – Dr. Malvitz
March 1, 2010 – 11:58 pm
Kōman ou ye!!!
(How are you?)
Today was another amazing day. An aftershock was felt today for about 5 seconds and every Haitian screamed and ran out of the clinic. We were able to transfer our spine patient via a German helicopter to Milot. (She has an unstable T11/12 fracture dislocation injured in the earthquake who walked [...]
