Well it has been an exciting few days with the ER guys here. Yesterday was suture lab using pigs feet. This is always a favorite for the students. It is truly amazing how quickly they pick up hands on skills. Some would even say these students are better at learning skills then American students. Above you can see Dr. Dave demonstrating lancing an abscess after Dr. Cyril showed us how to project live images onto the big screen using the camera in his computer. This is a huge advantage in showing them all a small scale technique. Especially when you are dealing with a language barrier.
Dr. Dave and Cyril have been teaching a lot of exciting and useful subjects including what to do for a patient after a motor vehicle accident, as seen in this picture. 
Yesterday after class we made a trip into town to see a local dentist for our two patients with severe teeth issues. Since we have been unable to find any dentists willing to help us teach these students we had to take them into town to get treatment. There is a very nice Christian Dentist in town that was extremely nice in helping us out with this, but he was unable to treat one of the students because of his high blood pressure. We treated this student as a class last year and had his BP well controlled. Like many patients in the USA he stopped taking his BP medicine after a few months because he was not feeling sick from his high BP and felt the medicine was making him a little weak. So we use this as a perfect example to the class of what not to do and why it is important. After spending about 4 hours belaboring this subject from every possible angle I don’t think he will stop his medicine again.
We fond some old pulled teeth in the training center from years past so we put them out for the students to see. Simply horrible teeth! I don’t think you would ever see anything like them in the USA. Just take a look.
That is all for now. We head to Burma this weekend to get our Visa’s extended for our last two weeks in Thailand.
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