by Kimberly Shriner, MD | Feb 16, 2012 | 2012 Field Journal
Here is an update on Team Tanzania 2012. On Saturday, 2/11/2012, the team conducted a medicine clinic at an orphanage outside of Arusha. A little history on the relationship with this orphanage: When we returned to Tanzania in 2006, Ezekiel Moirana, the young...
by Kimberly Shriner, MD | Feb 13, 2012 | 2012 Field Journal
I truly can not say enough about this beautiful country and its warmhearted people. In each face you see the purity of happiness. That genuine smile that shines bright despite all kinds of challenges and needs. Around me I see a hard working society full of...
by Kimberly Shriner, MD | Feb 13, 2012 | 2012 Field Journal
What an amazing week! It ended with a rotation into the recovery room. The patient arrived on a sling suspended between two poles. It seemed remarkably similar to some of the old pictures of patient transportation at HMH. It still works great, although I heard...
by Kimberly Shriner, MD | Feb 10, 2012 | 2012 Field Journal
I’ve been thinking a lot about Steve Jobs this trip; and, I have to tell you, this comes as a great surprise to me and will probably keel my family over because I am definitely not a techie person. But a in December of 2011 I bought an iPad. My son was getting , I...
by Kimberly Shriner, MD | Feb 10, 2012 | 2012 Field Journal
Arriving in Arusha, half way around the world, has gotten to be more like coming home than ever. Seeing all the familiar faces of our friends and extended family at the airport was a true joy. Much of Arusha feels familiar, but much has changed since my last visit...
by Kimberly Shriner, MD | Feb 10, 2012 | 2012 Field Journal
It’s hard to believe we have been in Tanzania for less than a week. The medical and surgical teams got off to a brisk start and have been hard at work ever since. Now that the dust is settling a bit (and, in Tanzania, that is more than just a metaphor), we have some...
