So i'm sitting on a computer in the suprisingly pleasant library of the national pediatrics hospital, avoiding a conference by the doctors on the trip. That's not to say that the presentations aren't interesting (slide 3: Chainsaw + face = bad), but i'm about to duck out to go eat snake with the team anesthesiologist.
the title of this post is a reference to the broken english introduction given to the conference audience about "giving children pretty faces, hands, and feets." Bloodsuckers is a nod to the leeches that we've been putting on the new finger of the boy operated on last night, to increase blood flow through the digit. Apparently in the US, all one needs to do to procure leeches is call 1-800-LEECHES (I'm not joking) and "medical grade" leeches will be overnighted to any hospital in the contiguous 48 states by a company called 'USA Leeches'. The vietnamese equivalent of this service is to draw a picture of a leech and tell the family of the patient to find a jar-full before their loved one's finger falls off. Sure enough 10 hours later a jar of wild pond parasites was sitting in the SICU.
follow-up:
Other news is that I ate 1/2 of a cobra, but the details will have to wait for tomorrow's update...
1 comment:
WHOA What was the cobra like???
Post a Comment