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Tales from East Africa: Malaria Update
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Tales from East Africa. Monday, November 26, 2007. Another post I wrote in early November*. So, since I’ve learned from Will that my ridiculous bad luck now has his family worried that he’ll get malaria, I’ll give a quick update on my road to recovery. It’s funny because I felt like such a hero saying “I have malaria (gasp! 8221; to people, since it’s so far out of the realm of normal for us. When I told Americans, the response was always “omigod are you ok? I can’t believe this is happening! I was think...
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Tales from East Africa: Malaria
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Tales from East Africa. Thursday, November 1, 2007. Not my smear, it got thrown away before I could see it - I wanted the souvenir! Well, my exciting news of the day is that I have malaria. So much for doxycycline prophylaxis and using a bed net! Although I was looking at my doxy bottle this morning thinking there were maybe too many pills left, so maybe I wasn’t the best prophylactee. Definitely rounds out the whole African experience. Now all I need is TB…. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Tales from East Africa: Reflections on Medicine and FACES
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Tales from East Africa. Monday, November 26, 2007. Reflections on Medicine and FACES. I wrote this in early November, but wasn't able to post anything while I was travelling*. Since I came to Africa to work in HIV medicine (among many other less altruistic sounding motives), I was a bit surprised looking back at what I’ve written about to see how little I’ve actually posted about my medical experiences here other than those where I was the patient. Or am I horrified by the fact that I have had to do thin...
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Tales from East Africa: Oranges and Bananas
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Tales from East Africa. Monday, October 29, 2007. An interesting corollary to all that political chatter is the Barak Obama bit. Barak’s father was Luo, from near Kisumu. So you can imagine how people around here feel about him. When talking politics, the second thing out of people’s mouths (after talking about how Raila will save Kenya) is, “so, do you thing Barak has a chance? Are you for Barak? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Lake Nakuru and Menengai Crater. Intro to FACES - staff meeting.
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Tales from East Africa: October 2007
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Tales from East Africa. Tuesday, October 30, 2007. What’s the working diagnosis at this point? What more will be done before the patient is discharged? Who really is following up on the patient and making management decisions, if the intern assigned to the ward doesn’t have the answers? Many expats live a life here that is luxurious to a degree that most couldn’t imagine living in their home countries. Servants, guards at the gate, cars with drivers – who could live like that at home? An interesting coro...
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Tales from East Africa: November 2007
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Tales from East Africa. Monday, November 26, 2007. Another post I wrote in early November*. So, since I’ve learned from Will that my ridiculous bad luck now has his family worried that he’ll get malaria, I’ll give a quick update on my road to recovery. It’s funny because I felt like such a hero saying “I have malaria (gasp! 8221; to people, since it’s so far out of the realm of normal for us. When I told Americans, the response was always “omigod are you ok? I can’t believe this is happening! I was think...
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Tales from East Africa: Expat Life
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Tales from East Africa. Tuesday, October 30, 2007. It’s an odd experience being here for 5 short weeks; you want to set up a life for yourself because really, who wants to sit alone at night watching the bad Mexican telenovelas translated into English that pass as prime time TV in Kenya? Many expats live a life here that is luxurious to a degree that most couldn’t imagine living in their home countries. Servants, guards at the gate, cars with drivers – who could live like that at home?
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Tales from East Africa: Anonymous
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Tales from East Africa. Tuesday, October 30, 2007. What’s the working diagnosis at this point? What more will be done before the patient is discharged? Who really is following up on the patient and making management decisions, if the intern assigned to the ward doesn’t have the answers? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Lake Nakuru and Menengai Crater. Lake Baringo and Lake Bogoria - Hippos at last! Intro to FACES - staff meeting. First Days in Kisumu. Kisumu UCSF Medicine rotation resource.
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Tales from East Africa: Lake Nakuru & Menengai Crater
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Tales from East Africa. Monday, October 29, 2007. Lake Nakuru and Menengai Crater. 8221; Now I’m getting called in to look at skin several times a day, and I find myself saying “oh, yes, most likely psoriasis…” Hard not to feel a bit like a big fake, but oh well…. Kenyans complain bitterly about the state of their roads, and initially I thought it was one of those reflex complaints (like Americans and taxes), but no, Kenyan roads are really, really bad. I’ll say it again, really, really bad.