Two Days in Chicua III
So I’m in a room at my usual little hideout, The Spring Hotel, in something-less-than-sublime Guatemala City. Nice here, and there’s hardly any guests so far, so it’s extraordinarily quiet. Of course it has...
Category: Photo Galleries
Outback Medicine – The Rotation Begins with a BANG in Canton Xepocol
So the first day of the clinic began with a bang – 101 patients between the 3 docs – in the far-flung canton (Spanish for “precinct,” but in Chichi a small village) of Xepocol....
The February 2017 University of Texas PA Program Rotation Begins
Well, as always I’m slow to get things posted to the blog. But better late than never, I suppose. Anyway, the two new students arrived on Sunday, February 5, just a tad later in...
Milpa Medicine
In November 2016 Wendy and Sara, students in the University of Texas Medical Branch Physician’s Assistant program, worked for several days in a very rural clinic set in the tiny little central highlands village...
The Jornada’s Back in Town!
So once again the little pueblo of San Juan Olintepeque, in the Department of Quetzaltenango in Guatemala, played host to a clinical rotation for students from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston....
Home Visits with Viejitos en el Campo
At one point in time there was a fairly long narrative to go along with these pictures. But somehow it went off to the etherworld cemetery. But very briefly, these photos are of a...
Faces of the UTMB May/June ’16 Clinical Rotation
I always come to Guatemala with every intention of writing often and a lot. I never do so, because with or without a tour, medical mission, or clinical rotation to facilitate, my schedule is...
Postcards from Olintepeque
So here I am all alone at the residence in Quetzaltenango, while the clinical crew is doing a second day in Olintepeque. Yesterday, our first day, was a grand success, with us seeing about 100 patients –...
UTMB Clinical Rotation: Week 1 Update
Well, as is usually the case with trips to Guatemala, my blogging has not kept up with our experiences on this trip. There’s really been a lot to talk about, but we’ve been very busy,...
The Jan 2016 Clinical Rotation: Chichi and Lake Atitlan, Jan 9-20
The January University of Texas Medical Branch Physician Assistant School clinical rotation turned out to be a great success at various levels, as the three students and their mentors treated hundreds of patients over the course...
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