Partnering with local healthcare workers and churches in medically underserved countries, Odessa, Texas-based Mercy Trips Healthcare Outreach
provides free medical clinics and surgical care as an outreach of
Christian love for our fellow man. Among them on this latest trip is
Midland's own Dr. James Huston.
"What Food Do You Miss from Home?"
I miss REAL Mexican food & looking forward to some soon after I get
back. I worked in OR today, started out with an ovarian cyst that
turned into a hysterectomy- surprise to all of us. The other surgeries
were no surprises.
- Jim
Today was my first time n the OR and I learned so much. My teammates were so helpful and we work
well together. Also got to hand out candy to all the children in the
area. Today flew by fast but was a great learning experience. Oh and I
miss Ranch y'all! Yeehaw!!
- Natalie
I miss my iced tea the
most, but I love not having to cook and doing dishes, so it's a good
trade off. I'm proud to see Angie doing about every job their is to do
in the OR.
- Julie
Today was great - I got to learn so much from
our anesthetist Lameck. He taught me about medications that he uses and
monitoring the patient. I even got to intubate a patient which was
successful! Very excited
that I had someone willing to teach me so much! As far as food that I
miss... I can't think of anything. I love all the food here!
- Angie
I admit it, I rolled my eyes at Dr. Daniel (picture to follow) lol! I
was teaching the surgical technologist students the "clamp, clamp, cut,
tie" routine and he said "well technically it's clamp, clamp, cut, tie,
tie" for those that work in the operating room I know your rolling your
eyes too lol!!!!! Doctors are soooo technical lol! I miss my mothers
authentic Mexican food.
- Grace
Winnie, the PA brought me a
patient with chronic cough who she had worked up with TB testing,
multiple antibiotics and chest x rays, etc, actually a pretty extensive
workup for Uganda, but the lady was just not getting better. She had a
pretty loud heart murmur and and a pulsatile chest. I used the good old
Chinese ultrasound machine to diagnose an aortic stenosis and aortic
valve leakage as the cause of her chronic cough. She will be referred to
a cardiologist in Kampala for further care. We can actually do a lot of
medicine at Kanginima Hospital! I miss green chili everything from
Northeastern New Mexico!
- Mark Van Wormer
I so enjoy
sitting around a table with a small team waiting for dinner, laughing,
joking, talking about the day. It's a lot like a family dinner time,
and a small enough group to participate in every conversation. I must
echo Mexican Food as the food I miss the most.
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