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Hope and Healing: Archived
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It has been tremendous writing this blog, but as you can tell, there hasn't been an update in almost eighteen months. Newer posts can be found here:. Thank you for five excellent years! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Interested in finding out more? Subscribe To This Blog. Subscribe in a reader. Blogroll (and other links). The Adventures of Tothano. Vivian J. Prunner. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
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Hope and Healing: July 2011
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It always feels so short. It always feels so short, but six weeks goes by quickly. I'm back home, after 156 cases on 77 patients followed by a week in Europe for the wedding of two beautiful people. Thank you for following. Until next time. Links to this post. Training, relief, and development. Last week, Agneta took out a man's jaw. But, before I tell you about that, some background. There is a tension in global health between relief and development. I've written about this before,. Agneta is one of the...
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Hope and Healing: Training, relief, and development
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Training, relief, and development. Last week, Agneta took out a man's jaw. But, before I tell you about that, some background. There is a tension in global health between relief and development. I've written about this before,. Bridging these two basic paradigms of aid is thorny. Although each is important, each has its stentorian prophets, and development's prophets have, of late, carried the day. So, when Agneta took out a jaw last week, it was more than just an operation. Subscribe To This Blog. The o...
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Hope and Healing: February 2008
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President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's visit to the. Monrovia from a car window:. Click on the pictures for more. Links to this post. The cleft and the high priest. Evidently, there are rumors about the ship. Don't go onto the big white ship, people are cautioned. They'll tell you it's a hospital, but it's not. It's a slave ship. You'll get on, and you won't get off. For a culture like ours, in which. Hearing these sorts of warnings from their elders, there must be a degree of desperation that trumps any fear...
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Hope and Healing: It always feels so short
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It always feels so short. It always feels so short, but six weeks goes by quickly. I'm back home, after 156 cases on 77 patients followed by a week in Europe for the wedding of two beautiful people. Thank you for following. Until next time. January 31, 2012 at 11:08 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Interested in finding out more? Subscribe To This Blog. Subscribe in a reader. Blogroll (and other links). The Adventures of Tothano. Vivian J. Prunner. Let the beauty we love be what we do.
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Hope and Healing: January 2008
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Ten days ago, we left New Zealand. Ten days from now, we leave for Africa. It's amazing how much can change in ten days. Access to the internet? For what operating on this rolling ship will entail and what caring for these patients will challenge, for what meandering through the streets of Monrovia will ask of us, for what living with four hundred or so others in a 499-foot boat will do to us. Today, we're attempting to stave off the unknown, but finding it bubble to the surface in concentric circles of ...
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Hope and Healing: March 2008
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One of the conditions placed on this love of Canada is the requirement for a medical exam. Now, I don't fault them. They're intending to hire a filthy foreigner like me to work in their health-care system. I'd want to screen that foreigner thoroughly. It only makes sense. And "How many teeth have you lost? Small border-related gaffe averted, I called the physician's own cell phone, made an appointment directly with him, booked a taxi and headed into Monrovia. We have continued to screen patients after ou...
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Hope and Healing: March 2009
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Never the twain shall meet. Blandine* is a beautiful, playful seven-year-old girl, who doesn't seem to notice the one thing about her that everyone else sees first: In the side of her head, in her infratemporal fossa, she has a large mass (What am I saying? Does anyone in this country have a small mass? But to look at her, you'd never know. Her face is asymmetric, for sure, but that's about it. She's a happy seven-year-old. See, it made me question what it really meant to give informed consent. But then ...
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Hope and Healing: May 2008
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Liberians are enamored of acronyms, it seems. Every sign, every store name, every window must be bedecked with an abbreviation, to give it—I can only surmise—a sense of import. Some of these acronyms are eminently obvious: The International Church of Monrovia, for example, is. Referred to by its assistant pastor as "The International Church of Monrovia, or ICM for short" (The fact that the offending appendage does nothing to shorten the sentence seems lost. But what do I know? I think they might be).
