Uncatergorized

She had been 3 days in labor at home. Then she went to the clinic. They recognized that she needed to be at the hospital, so she was sent to us. As I walked into the room a putrid odor…

There are six weeks left of time here in Cameroon. Each day is filled with the usual complex patients at the hospital. Inpatient rounds, outpatients, surgeries, and periodic calls at night. The evenings are spent with Audrey and Sarah, often…

“Could one of you come and see this child?” Jacques asked Audrey and I. The child was breathing fast and was very pale. He is 7 months old, 6kg (about 13lbs), and has a huge anterior fontanelle which is very…

Diagnostic dilemmas are constant here. This comes from the fact that to diagnose different diseases there are a limited number of tests available, and even those are made more limited by patients refusing to do the ones we desire. Most…