Kuda Maloney, M.D/MPhilDermatology ResidentTrinidad and Tobago: A feasibility study on the utility of a standard set of Images as a screening tool for Hansen�s disease.Two heavy barrels block the entrance to the street, communicating the wordless instruction to STAY OUT. But the man leaning against the fence recognizes the social worker, waves two youths over to move the barrels and we drive through....
Thank you means no? Gia Dinh Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
It's hard to live between culture, and I've found myself floundering a few times. Americans are so earnest, so honest, so straightforward at times, and I've grown to love this way of being. But I forget.When my grandmother suffered a series of devastating strokes in Romania, we very sadly had to admit her to a nursing home, I'm sure with plenty of guilt of soul searching on the part of my parents....
Please bring food, water, and a caregiver Gia Dinh Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnamskss
Since the decades of war ended in Vietnam seems to have always fostered large families (four or five siblings is common), until the recent introduction of a two child limit. The culture and even the language is built around a complex web of pronouns and deferential or authoritative addresses based on relative status drawn from age and kinship, then continuing out into relative social status outside...
Privacy and Personal Space, Gia Dinh Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Even in Boston I'm taken aback considering the experience of the sick, sharing rooms and experiences that are only making illness harder. The actively dying share rooms with the nearly well, and young, and I wonder if the thin curtain in the middle helps or hurts, if it would be better to just draw it back and share the spectacle of the illness.In Vietnam this question has been in part answered for...
