Ritsona and Malakasa camp are said to reside in between two large mountain ranges, tucked away securely and covertly in a valley, explaining the perpetual grey and cold compared to its sister city, Athens. It did not matter...
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Tucked away in a shadowed corner between the truncated stairs to the church stage and the endless rows of stacked chairs, a man sits crouched, holding a child between his legs as if she is one of the...
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On August 1, 2018, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared a new Ebola outbreak in North Kivu, located in the northeast region of the country [1]. By September 7, a total of...
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“The life of a single human being is worth a million time more than all the property of the richest man on earth.” Quote by Ernesto “Ché” Guevara above the entrance to the Calixto Garcia Hospital. On August...
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Friday, September 30, 2016 A small village about 50 miles outside of Santa Domingo It was our last day on the trip. We had flown into Santa Domingo on Sunday, piled into a bus 24-people strong (I know...
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It’s 0300 and your AC/DC ‘Thunderstruck’ alarm sounds. Wide-eyed, you feel a shudder of panic as your adrenals dump everything they’ve got into your bloodstream. It’s the first day of your surgical rotation. Thunderstruck is right. You question...
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*Batey Aleman It was the second day of clinic at Batey Aleman, and we were waiting for our next patient. A frail woman turned the corner and knelt on her cane for support as she made her way...
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ACROSS THE UNITED STATES-MEXICO BORDER: LESSONS LEARNED FROM A TRANSCULTURAL PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE: Frontiers in Public Health, 22 June 2015 | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2015.00159 Paula Aristizabal, Spencer Fuller, Rebeca Rivera, David Beyda, Raul C....
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I recently returned from one of the International Health Organization of Phoenix (IHOP) medical trips to the Dominican Republic, where we were able to administer care to the sugar cane workers that live in the bateyes. It was...
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