by Kimberly Shriner, MD | Feb 15, 2007 | 2007 Field Journal
Hello Everyone, For the past few days we’ve been on safari and I’m sure you’ve read the other journal entries and had described for you what an awesome experience it has been for each and every one of us. Today is our last lecture at Mount Meru this morning and some...
by Kimberly Shriner, MD | Feb 15, 2007 | 2007 Field Journal
Images of Safari: Parked in a cool, shaded grove of trees and tall grass, surrounded by a herd of elephants, the only sound, that of the herd pulling up the grass and rustling through the undergrowth. The excitement of our first animal sighting, a lone Impala running...
by Kimberly Shriner, MD | Feb 15, 2007 | 2007 Field Journal
We returned last night from an amazing adventure! Our safari team consisted of Denny & Ann Kleeger & Tom Warren in one vehicle and Alison Hadziosmanovic, Phyllis Hollingsworth, Mihoko Nelson and me in the second vehicle. New friendships were formed and much...
by Kimberly Shriner, MD | Feb 11, 2007 | 2007 Field Journal, Tanzania Project News
Well, at the risk of repeating everyone else…what an amazing week its been. As I remembered from the 2005 trip, Tanzania and Arusha are a very surreal study in contrasts…poverty and wealth, natural beauty and industrial grit. Like the clothesline drying bedsheets...
by Jody Casserly, LCSW | Feb 11, 2007 | 2007 Field Journal
The social workers, I think, have a very unique experience as part of this medical team. We don’t dispense medications…we can’t read an x-ray…we all got a little queasy listening to Dr. Schulman’s lecture on gastric bleeding at Mount Meru hospital…but Ann Kleeger,...
by Kimberly Shriner, MD | Feb 11, 2007 | 2007 Field Journal
Today the physicians with the exception of Dr. Shriner (John Cho, David Schulman, Bill Blitz, Mihoko Nelsen, Wafaa Alrashid and I) decided to visit the local shaman to compare notes on how we treat people. We drove up to a tinroofed hut made from cow dung where there...
