Day 054:
The practice of medicine in the philippines, we are told, is not like the movies. In House or Grey's Anatomy, the physician is empowered by technological wonders, amazing laboratories that "think" for you, wonderdrugs, and magical interventions. We see them, making odd diagnoses, ordering IVIG like anything, ordering 10 labs in a breath, "do an MRI of the entire body".
Yesterday we did a little bit of medicine. Equipped with a small karaoke machine, and an about-to-fall-apart microphone, we stepped into the ward, and we gave advice on postpartum care. this is the practice of medicine, we are told... apart from the interventions and drugs... our goal is also to educate and prevent.
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