Sunday, 17 June 2012

Day 14: Saline and Dressings

I slept in until 9am, the latest I've slept in since I got here. I ate a peanut butter sandwich and got ready for the hospital. Sunny, Joe, and I took a tuktuk to the hospital at around 10:30am.

When we arrived at 11am, the hospital was very empty, with only a few nurses in Casualties and only about two doctors going between Minor Theater and Casualties. We watched a doctor clean necrotic tissue out of a guy's foot, which somehow had lateral fractures across the three medial metatarsals. We mostly followed doctors and nurses around Casualties and Minor Theater for most of the time. My experience for the day included changing a patient's IV saline solution and adding dressings on another patient's right leg injuries. We took a tuktuk back to the complex around 2pm.

After we got back, we ate some lunch and went swimming (with monkeys in the trees around the pool!). We hung out for a while until dinner was ready.

Dinner was beef fried rice and tomato stuff.

After dinner, we played some Uno, reviewed the names and locations of bones, and went to bed.

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