This should be a good post. I hope you all enjoy it. So today was my first clinical day. I traveled with Maya another student to a clinic in the North of Quito up in the hills in los barrios pobrezas. There is hospital-clinic there, Hopsital Volzades. Many of the people come there from the surrounding area. But its really quite small. The first day I did some nurse stuff-took some vital signs and measurements for the patients before they were seen my the doctor. I also observed several visits with the doctor. One was a couple kids with varicella (chickenpox) and then the more exciting\sad case was necrotizing facitis. This 8 yr old had been hiding his infection from his mama. I suppose he was afriaid of going to the doctor. It was a super bad infection though. It looked like a second degree burn and was quite large. Close to the stage of IV antibiotics--whihc they would go straight to in the states. They dressed his wound with a dressing that had antibiotic in it, prescribed him antibiotics and told him to come back tomorrow. Unfortunately that was yesterday and we did not see him today. I truly hope his mama gets him those antibiotics or he could lose his leg. Anyway, that was the most of my clinical experience. We then returned by taxi. Drivers are crazy here and I´m pretty sure there arent really speed limits here.
After that we had spanish class and we went to a place for some salsa lessons. It was a serious workout, but lots of fun. We got a bit lost following Alejo he said he knew where he was going but we ended up seeing some rich neighborhoods and taking a 30 minute detour.
In the evening we went out to the Plaza Foch where all the bars and discoteqs are. We found a place to dance and drink. It was an all around good time. I must close this post now, because <i don´t want to pay for more internet but I will tell you all more later!
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