Our blog is looking a bit bare of pictures. So this post will mostly consist of photos from the past week.
First, I will give a quick update on me. I spent a half day in the ED with 2 med students from NY. We attended ED rounds and saw a few patients with residents/doctors. There were multiple dehydration patients, a 14yo patient with anemia (hemoglobin 4.0!!!) presumably due to nutritional deficiency and severe cellulitis of a large ankle lesion, a younger woman who attempted suicide by hanging who came in with respiratory distress and was intubated by RSI, pneumonia, etc. Overall, I was impressed by the advanced technology they had available including vitals monitors, ultrasound and CT in the radiology department, easily accessible ECG machines, and ventilators in their emergency ICU which was attached to the ED. The conditions were still sub-par according to American standards, although. It as also surprising to me how patient presentations were almost identical to the way patients are presented in the U.S. Even the same order and phrases are used.
Today I was not in the ED as I was the first victim of gastroenteritis in our travel group. Multiple visits were paid to the porcelain gods last night and this AM so I wasn't feeling up to standing in the hot ED all day. I am excited to have more Indian medicine experiences tomorrow and will report back!!
First, I will give a quick update on me. I spent a half day in the ED with 2 med students from NY. We attended ED rounds and saw a few patients with residents/doctors. There were multiple dehydration patients, a 14yo patient with anemia (hemoglobin 4.0!!!) presumably due to nutritional deficiency and severe cellulitis of a large ankle lesion, a younger woman who attempted suicide by hanging who came in with respiratory distress and was intubated by RSI, pneumonia, etc. Overall, I was impressed by the advanced technology they had available including vitals monitors, ultrasound and CT in the radiology department, easily accessible ECG machines, and ventilators in their emergency ICU which was attached to the ED. The conditions were still sub-par according to American standards, although. It as also surprising to me how patient presentations were almost identical to the way patients are presented in the U.S. Even the same order and phrases are used.
Today I was not in the ED as I was the first victim of gastroenteritis in our travel group. Multiple visits were paid to the porcelain gods last night and this AM so I wasn't feeling up to standing in the hot ED all day. I am excited to have more Indian medicine experiences tomorrow and will report back!!
Spice Market in Chandni Chowk market, Old Delhi. These are actually nuts but there were really more spice sellers than nut sellers.
We had been seeing pigeons everywhere in our first few days in Delhi and made a comment that someone was going to be pooped on before we left. Well, it happened at our soda stop just outside the Taj Mahal complex. Right on Sasha's foot. We were so excited it actually happened I had to take a picture.
This is our first tuk-tuk ride in New Delhi. As you can see they are not built for 4 people. That's Jill in the blue shirt, Sasha's nose to the right, and KJ holding on for her life as you can tell by her facial expression.
This is our bedroom in the Annexe III at St. John's Medical College in Bangalore. Bare but very nice and clean. We all brought our own sheets as lice can be a problem.
This is our bathroom at the Annexe. No shower curtains as Indians don't actually use shower heads but rather buckets to bathe with. The water does tend to soak the whole room. Again, bare but very nice and clean.
Namaste!!
-Abby
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