Introduction

This blog will follow me through my travels and experiences working at a clinic in Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala. The clinic sees primarily indigenous (Mayan) patients in a rural mountain community. More than half of the patients are children, and the clinic is expanding its population even more to include more adults. Much of my struggles actually come from the rather universal theme of being a new healthcare provider, in my case, a new nurse practitioner. I'll also try to post plenty of travel stories to keep people entertained, and share some more cheerful stories. I apologize if there's an overkill of clinic stories. Sometimes it helps to tell the stories, even if only for my own sake.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Clinic Photos

This is the clinic's pharmacy. We get new items every week, so this morning we were doing some re-stocking/inventory.
This is one of the classrooms. We also use it as a workspace/breakroom/library.


This is the lab, where a few tests (we examine all the stool samples from the school for parasites or other signs of infection), and what we can't do there gets sent out. Zach is the current lab tech.

Waiting around for patients this morning. The day got off to a slightly slow start, but then picked up. Patient flow in a walk-in clinic is pretty unpredictable.

This is the area where the patients wait. Sometimes it's filled with families, and children are running around playing. Other times it looks like this...
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