Settling In At SMH and DH
Part 5 of our May, 2015 Loma Linda University Health Orthopedic Team visit to Nepal. Some readers may find it unusual that we are posting trip reports from Nepal on a website devoted to a project in Haiti. However the precipitating circumstances (major earthquakes) are similar and currently a team that frequents Hopital Adventiste d’Haiti …
Walk through Bhaktapur, Nepal
Part 4 of our May, 2015 Loma Linda University Health Orthopedic Team visit to Nepal. On Saturday evening we had the opportunity to take a walk through Bhaktapur, a town just a few miles from our home base in Banepa. Up until the earthquake 2 weeks ago, Bhaktapur had the best preserved palace courtyards and …
Nepal Orthopedics Day 1
Part 3 of our May, 2015 Loma Linda University Health Orthopedic Team visit to Nepal. Please consider donating to Adventist Health International’s Nepal Earthquake Fund. There were several surgical patients waiting for our team when we showed up for morning report. Although all cases were “quake-related”, at least half occurred in the 1-2 days after …
On Our Way To Kathmandu!
Part 2 of our May, 2015 Loma Linda University Health Orthopedic Team visit to Nepal. The banner image above is a shot of the tracking screen in front of each seat on Etihad Airways. We finally made it safely to our destination, Scheer Memorial Hospital in Banepa, Nepal, almost 37 hours after leaving Loma Linda, …
Back To The Future
Although this website is primarily dedicated to the advancement of Hopital Adventiste d’Haiti from time to time we will feature reports of trip experiences outside of Hispaniola in hope of stimulating interest in the concept of volunteerism in general. Rodding femur at SMH with Greg Dietrich in 1995 Heading back to Nepal this coming Wednesday …
Haiti Through The Eyes Of A Young Surgeon
Philip McClure recently graduated from the Orthopedic Surgery Residency at Brown University in Rhode Island and will soon be entering a Pediatric Orthopedic Fellowship at the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas. Phil has volunteered at Hopital Adventiste d’Haiti on two separate occasions and I am quite certain that they will not have been his last …
Mark Mildren Trip Report
The following post was written by Mark Mildren, MD, a PGY-4 Orthopedic Surgery Resident at Loma Linda University who was part of Dr Scott Nelson’s team that visited Hopital Adventiste d’Haiti earlier this month. Mark is planning on pursuing additional fellowship training in total joint replacement surgery upon graduation. Mark’s sense of humor has assumed legendary status …
Dietrich/Mulder/Gerke Trip Report
The Dietrich/Mulder/Gerke orthopedic/anesthesia team spent April 19 – 24, 2015 at Hopital Adventiste d’Haiti (HAH) and the following is their report. Terry and Jeannie Dietrich have established the Dietrich Haiti Indigent Patient Fund through Amistad International to create an endowment that will sustain itself to facilitate patients who don’t have the means to pay for life-changing surgeries. …
The Dietrichs
Beginning with a trip to Africa when Terry was a senior medical student, the Dietrichs have compiled an impressive resume of volunteer service. Over the past 40 years Terry and Jeannie have worked in numerous countries including longterm stints in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Most volunteers do so at the beginning or end of …
Corey Burke Trip Report
Corey Burke is a 3rd year medical student from Loma Linda University with an interest in pursuing a career as an orthopedic surgeon. He recently returned from spending 2wks volunteering at Hopital Adventiste d’Haiti. When I think about HAH, I see a young girl waiting in the pre-op room smiling at me. She can’t contain …
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