Just in case you guys were wondering this is how things kinda work over here in Ghana:
There are two doctors here and a few native medical assistants (comparable to PA's). Rounds start at 7:30 AM with around 80-100 people to be seen. That usually goes until about 9 AM and you see a ton of kids with malaria, several snake bites a day, lots of babies being born, malnourished children, people recovering from surgery, and several exotic diseases (Guilliane-Barre, typhoid perpherations, etc.) By that time there is a crowd of people in the waiting area being triaged and what not. One doctor here saw 97 patients Monday and 69 Wednesday, the other doctor doesn't keep count because it is just too ridiculous. For those of you who don't know for a doctor to see 30 patients a day is pretty good in the States. After that is all over, there are procedures to do. For instance Wednesday after seeing patients, Dr. Faile had a C-Section, Keyloid fibroma removal, Lipoma removal, granuloma evaluation, and a laprotomy, that was 8 PM. I went home and Dr. Faile came back and did another laprotomy and some other procedure I didn't write down. He had a C-section this morning on Thursday at 7 AM before rounds. Tuesdays and Thursdays are procedure days, so today was a Bilateral Tubal Ligation, 6 hernia repairs, and handling whatever critical cases came in needing to be admitted, plus rounds.
12-14 hour days, call every other night, limited resources, less glory--all for the sake of the poor, all to the glory of God.
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