Día 14

One of the less exciting days of work, but as always - it could be worse.

Actually, we saw something kind of 'exciting' on the way to work. There was significantly more traffic than usual, and it turns out that someone se murió en el parque (died in the park) we pass on the way to work. There was quite a crowd gathered around and the police we're just beginning to show up. Our driver just kind of brushed it off, as if this thing happens all the time here. Huh, rough stuff.

Once we finally arrived en el hospital, we ended up getting split up a bit and had to do a full physical exam of some of the patients. As I mentioned yesterday, when doing the physical exam, part of it is the family history including where the family lives, their jobs, etc. It's really not an easy task when you get to the portion about their pregnancy y medical history when your medical vocabulary is limited. I got lucky and the family I spoke to was very helpful. They would finish sentences for me, talk slow enough for me to understand, and would repeat anything I didn't catch the first time around. Christina, on the other hand, wasn't so lucky. The mother would literally stare at her and laugh. We were doing the best we could when asking personal questions, but she just refused to help us out. She would just give a one word answer and then proceed to laugh at us. And that's not always easy to handle. You're doing the best you can, and these people are just making fun of us. We were happy when that was over, to say the least.

Sadly, the rest of our day was muy aburrido (very boring). We hung out in radiology, but we saw no exciting casos. Just the same old things - hernias, pneumonia, and abscesses. We left work around 2, and that was it for our day. I'm sorry I don't have more for you, but today was just a slow day. Tomorrow is our last day en infectología, which is honestly fine by me. We're head to Samaná en Jueves (on Thursday), which is supposed to be a beautiful beach. I'll be taking my computer this time, so I'll do my best to post some pictures of where we're staying! Hasta mañana!