It has been another busy week. We have three new doctors that arrived over the last few days. They are all from Indiana University (IU) and are doing an outstanding job. We are all enormously appreciative of their willingness to take time out of their extremely busy lives to help pass on desperately needed knowledge to the Barefoot Doctors. Ironically, we have not had one teaching doctor leave yet that did not tell us how impacted they were from this experience. Some felt like they had gotten even more out of it than the students themselves! There is no doubt it is a powerful experience.
Dr. Vegas Coleman got in Sunday afternoon and began teaching Monday on Psychological disorders, drug addiction, and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) among other things. Vegas is a Doctor of Psychology and doing a fellowship right now. He offers a badly needed specialty to these Barefoot Drs. The need is much greater than we had initially anticipated but almost all the students have seen a lot of addiction, PTSD, and other psychological disorders. The Barefoot Drs are a tough crowd when it comes to joke-telling, mostly due to translation issues, but somehow Vegas had them all laughing hysterically. He has a great, animated teaching style that needs no translation. It seems God has truly called him on this mission and I am sure great things will come from it.
Last night Deezi and I went to the airport at 12:30 AM to pick up
Dr. Elise O’ Connell and our Otoscopes! It went smoothly except we had a new Customs agent and he had to call the contact info we had for the FDA agent after hours. Then the Customs agent raised the price of the tax! We worked it out and it is done now. Elise is an Internal Medicine Dr and began teaching bright and early Tuesday morning. Elise was teaching on how to examine a sick person. She had some great slides of graphic pictures to help the Barefoot Drs. see what diseases look like and how to diagnose and treat different problems.
Our third new arrival is
Dr. Lauren Hansen-Welches, an ENT resident from IU. She arrived at 7:25 am and got a ride out to the training center at lunchtime to help teach the afternoon session and to teach the Barefoot Drs how to use their new OTOSCOPES! It was a fun afternoon but it is definitely getting hotter. It was about 100 degrees today. Our poor new Doctors held up well, but they must have been dying after coming from the cold weather in Indianapolis, in addition to the jetlag.
Dr. Vegas Coleman got in Sunday afternoon and began teaching Monday on Psychological disorders, drug addiction, and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) among other things. Vegas is a Doctor of Psychology and doing a fellowship right now. He offers a badly needed specialty to these Barefoot Drs. The need is much greater than we had initially anticipated but almost all the students have seen a lot of addiction, PTSD, and other psychological disorders. The Barefoot Drs are a tough crowd when it comes to joke-telling, mostly due to translation issues, but somehow Vegas had them all laughing hysterically. He has a great, animated teaching style that needs no translation. It seems God has truly called him on this mission and I am sure great things will come from it.
Last night Deezi and I went to the airport at 12:30 AM to pick up Dr. Elise O’ Connell and our Otoscopes! It went smoothly except we had a new Customs agent and he had to call the contact info we had for the FDA agent after hours. Then the Customs agent raised the price of the tax! We worked it out and it is done now. Elise is an Internal Medicine Dr and began teaching bright and early Tuesday morning. Elise was teaching on how to examine a sick person. She had some great slides of graphic pictures to help the Barefoot Drs. see what diseases look like and how to diagnose and treat different problems. 
Our third new arrival is Dr. Lauren Hansen-Welches, an ENT resident from IU. She arrived at 7:25 am and got a ride out to the training center at lunchtime to help teach the afternoon session and to teach the Barefoot Drs how to use their new OTOSCOPES! It was a fun afternoon but it is definitely getting hotter. It was about 100 degrees today. Our poor new Doctors held up well, but they must have been dying after coming from the cold weather in Indianapolis, in addition to the jetlag. 
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