We started our surgery placement yesterday, and have seen a lot already! I think i've seen more people who have toes missing than people with a full set! Diabetes is such a big problem over here, so many people have it, but no one knows anything about it. So all the problems that you get with diabetes are just left until they're too painful or too swollen.. so when people come in to hospital, the only thing we can do is to chop it off. Though, they're very good at this hospital in trying to educate as much as possible. Hopefully, they are going to let me do an amputation at some point too, so quite excited about that!
Generally though, surgery is good. Outpatients is a bit boring - they have three doctors around a single desk, its pretty much all in Tamil (the local language), and they're so busy that there's hardly any time to explain anything. Its a good experience all the same though, the number of patients they get through in an afternoon is staggering!
We now have some more housemates too. Two more German students arrived on sunday night. Benedict and Colin. They are very nice and we're very glad of some company in the flat. Though Anna, the other German, has a tough deal... all by her self in the middle of the hospital, and she's not allowed to come to our flat at all. We're trying to look after her though.
We are also now planning our next weekend away. We think we will go to a water theme park on friday, and hopefully a national park on saturday, then we're going trekking again with the doctors on sunday. Exciting times!
I've uploaded some more photo's to the slideshow too. Enjoy
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