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 were several people milling around, one old lady who appeared quite drunk at 11:00 in the morning. Children in rags posed for us like movie stars and squealed with delight at the images on our digital cameras. We crowded in to the hot airless hut with the shaman, wearing a wool sweater, blazer, and baseball hat,as well as several patients, and children. The shaman sat down at a table with some green herb mixture and some white powder and proceeded to answer our questions with great wisdom and humor but I will let Dr. Nelsen tell you all about that.
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