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.
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