Mexico Medical Student |

In my seemingly never-ending lineup of things I have to do, my community medicine rotation starts this weekend. I elected to do it in Tequila, about 1.5 hours away, at a Red Cross because that’s where you get action. I was tired of going places here in town seeing runny noses, Pap smears, and hypertension management 90% of the time. That was OK 1st year. Now that I’m a 2nd year student, I need to translate the voluminous basic science knowledge I’ve amassed in the last 15 months (…pause for laughter…) and leverage that to treat an incoming stab wound with a pneumothorax or a compound fracture from a work accident, or…

OK, obviously I’m being silly and melodramatic. But I do want to get the hell out of Dodge to see more stuff. In a big city like Guadalajara, people can go to any number of “real” care facilities and not have to go to a Red Cross or the like. That’s the advantage (from a learning POV) of going to an underserved small town. I might even do some ambulance time with the Cruz Verde (Mexican volunteer/charity group like Red Cross) one of these upcoming weekends if I get bored.

So it goes w/o saying that since I’ll be in rural Mexico, I won’t be online. Given where I’m going, I may not be in any condition to post anything even if I had a connection, if you get my drift. Until early next week! In the meantime, enjoy the following: