Our most recent telemedicine consult has an interesting twist. The patient is a Mayan man who has been having abdominal pain for a long time. He was treated for a bacteria as well as a parasite but has not gotten better. Because he's seen several doctors and they've been unable to help him, the people in his small village think he has a curse on him by a witch-doctor. There are two main families in his village, and the idea that he has a curse on him has repercussions for his entire family, as it is thought that the curse was placed because the family did something wrong. Small villages being what they are, the whole family is feeling shunned. Hopefully, one of the InterVol doctors will diagnose the real problem and we can spare the family this turmoil.

Today, I assisted Dr. Pott with another hernia repair, and Dr. Pott assisted me with the surgical removal of a wart from a woman's leg. I've also been getting practice putting casts on arms, and removing them. We have several kids per week with wrist/elbow/arm fractures.