I made a child cry today

June 10, 2015

            I started my first day at Rathna today. Unlike Janet, Rathna isn’t bursting with patients. They might have thirty patients a day. I like the fact that Dr. Jeremiah is able to have one on one session with her patients, unlike Dr. Victoria, who is always surrounded by twenty patients in her office. The patients who come to see Dr. Jeremiah don’t only come for pregnancy issues, but rather for a variety of other things. A lady came in today to get medicine for her fever and it turned out that she had diarrhea problems. Another lady came in for weight counseling, being diabetic, her blood sugar was too high and Dr. Jeremiah advised her to change her eating diet. It was surprising and odd that many of the females coming in had irregular period problems. I’m not sure why that was the case, but many of the females were having a hard time conceiving because of their irregular period problems.

            Around noon, a little boy, his mom and grandma came in for a consultation. The child took one look at me and burst in tears. I’m not sure why, I guess I wore my ugly face today. Every time I made eye contact with the little boy, he would start to cry again. I found it hilarious, but the little boy, not so much. I’ve only been at Rathna for a day but I’m already liking the environment. When I become an older doctor, I want to be like Dr. Jeremiah. We welcomed a new student at the international hostel today, a French boy from Paris. We took him to get ice cream with us, not sure if he enjoyed the ice cream trip, but I know I did. The ice cream shop here is the best. I might write my paper on the different flavors of IBACO ice-cream. Thank the heavens for ice cream, after being sick for day ice scream is always the best remedy.

Day 11 in Trichy and I am considering staying here a little bit longer.