On Thursday, August 9, 2007, a team of 29 rag-tag medical types (all-stars, really) embarked on a surgical missions trip that would land them in Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda for the next week-and-a-half. To reference, Mulago was immortalized in the 2006 film "The Last King of Scotland." The crew--led by Dr. Michael Haglund, MD, PhD--consisted of neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, scrub nurses, floor/ICU nurses, engineers, and a few gophers like me.
So what was the big idea? Update the hospital with new equipment, instrumentation, and modernized techniques, build relationships with their docs and nurses (a.k.a. "sisters") that would facilitate the sharing of ideas--clinically and culturally--on both sides, and hopefully help some people out while we were there.
So why the blog? I wished I could have done this while I was there, but wasn't able to fit my lapper in the suitcase along with the screws, plates, allografts, instruments, and other contraband. Therefore, when I got home, I decided to do one of those "after-the-fact" blogs (many other un-blogged pics are available upon request by the way) to document the things we did, the things we saw, and just how good God is in the heat of it all...
So what was the big idea? Update the hospital with new equipment, instrumentation, and modernized techniques, build relationships with their docs and nurses (a.k.a. "sisters") that would facilitate the sharing of ideas--clinically and culturally--on both sides, and hopefully help some people out while we were there.
So why the blog? I wished I could have done this while I was there, but wasn't able to fit my lapper in the suitcase along with the screws, plates, allografts, instruments, and other contraband. Therefore, when I got home, I decided to do one of those "after-the-fact" blogs (many other un-blogged pics are available upon request by the way) to document the things we did, the things we saw, and just how good God is in the heat of it all...
No comments:
Post a Comment