Hello everybody!
Well, after a very wonderful week of south India travels with my dad, I am getting settled in at St. John's Hospital in Bangalore. As Sasha's post says, today's activities were almost entirely comprised of getting various documents signed by various administrative staff. However, I did eventually meet my pediatrics team (after a little more than an hour of waiting for them to arrive on the ward). I was just present for quick afternoon rounds, so haven't gotten a great feel for how things run yet. Tomorrow I will be there for the whole day so will hopefully get a bit more familiar with things. The hospital is old but seems well-equipped, although everything is done on paper and x-rays are not electronic. The patients are mostly staying in large wards with 10-20 beds, which makes for a noisy, hectic environment. One patient on our team had a private room in another section of the hospital, presumably because her family paid extra for it. We saw several very malnourished babies, some pneumonia and asthma, congenital heard disease, and a child with respiratory failure from motor neuron disease.
After we finished rounding, I went across the street
to get a 3G stick so now I have internet in my room -- so far it seems to be working very well. It's nice to feel more connected!
The photo shows the "glass house" at the botanical gardens in Bangalore -- a very pleasant place to spend an hour or two, with various local and exotic trees and plants.
Well, after a very wonderful week of south India travels with my dad, I am getting settled in at St. John's Hospital in Bangalore. As Sasha's post says, today's activities were almost entirely comprised of getting various documents signed by various administrative staff. However, I did eventually meet my pediatrics team (after a little more than an hour of waiting for them to arrive on the ward). I was just present for quick afternoon rounds, so haven't gotten a great feel for how things run yet. Tomorrow I will be there for the whole day so will hopefully get a bit more familiar with things. The hospital is old but seems well-equipped, although everything is done on paper and x-rays are not electronic. The patients are mostly staying in large wards with 10-20 beds, which makes for a noisy, hectic environment. One patient on our team had a private room in another section of the hospital, presumably because her family paid extra for it. We saw several very malnourished babies, some pneumonia and asthma, congenital heard disease, and a child with respiratory failure from motor neuron disease.
After we finished rounding, I went across the street
to get a 3G stick so now I have internet in my room -- so far it seems to be working very well. It's nice to feel more connected!The photo shows the "glass house" at the botanical gardens in Bangalore -- a very pleasant place to spend an hour or two, with various local and exotic trees and plants.
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