Medical student reflects on time in Haiti

By Elizabeth Case*
Shortly after returning from Haiti, I read Earnest Hemmingway’s The Old Man and the Sea. The book is set in Cuba, a locale about as foreign to Americans as the country of Haiti. Hemingway stunned me with his portrait of a Cuban fisherman. When I turned to write my [...]

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Learning in the field in a developing world

By William Ergen
Today was hot.
After an “uneventful” trip to our church, we unloaded the gear from the trucks and moved in.  Set up stations.  Check.  Register every patient with the local health administrators for records.  Check.  Students to their respective stations with assigned doctors.  Check.  The clinic was open for business.
The patients sat on their [...]

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