Year: 2017

Shanksteps Bere 2017 #11 I’m sitting eating supper with Olen and kids. The nurse calls to ask a doctor to see a person in the ER with Tetanus and another on peds with paralysis. I head on in to see…

Shanksteps (of faith) Bere 2017 #10 It’s Sabbath.  The day I worship our creator God and spend time with Him and family.  I like to avoid work (hard to do as a doctor) and here we don’t do rounds, but…

  I’m at the morning worship and I’m told that all the foreigners that work or volunteer in the hospital are called to see the highest local government official, the prefet, this morning. We are also suppose to bring our…

Shanksteps Bere 2017 #8   Olen and Denae’s kids are sick.  Fortunately it is with malaria!  You, reading that, are gasping!??!??  What? Fortunately malaria?  Yes it is true that malaria is responsible for 1.5-2.7 million deaths a year.  And death…