Amazon Trip

I guess it was bound to happen ... But this was my first bad day. Like I might not go back tomorrow. I got there at 7, and the day was pretty slow.  Their medicine here comes in glass ampules, I think from the 1800's, that you have to break the top off.  Well a nurse couldn't break one, so I offered and with my kung fu grip I managed to shatter the whole thing in my hand.  Strike one.  Then I was filling an IV with 100 ml of basically water before I put in the meds, and the nurse was like 'no, just hang the whole bottle.". Now I knew the meds and how much it was, and I could have injected it without any solution.  But whatever.  Strike 2. Then... 😡 A kid walked in at maybe 11a with, everyone say it ... an infected foot.  So we shot about a pint of antibiotics in his butt and out the door he goes.  Skipping past the imprudence of that, his family brought him in about an hour later and said he had a seizure at home.  Of course I'm by myself, a...

Today there wasn't a ton of excitement, except ... It was just me and one nurse in the ER today, and at some point she said "I'll be back in a while."  So literally for like an hour and a half I was in the ER by myself. Which isn't a huge deal because there's only four beds, but it's kind of a huge deal when I'm mixing meds and putting in IV's when I'm not really familiar with their medications or wtf I'm doing, if I want to get specific.  At one point all four beds were full, and I was running back and forth  and acting all doctor like.  But at least I didn't kill anyone... Yet. The funny thing is my local friend told me last night that everyone in town knows who I am, the gringo doctor.  And when they come to the clinic they try to get me. 😳. I think for the most part it's only because I have some empathy and spend some time with them, and the other doctors seriously just kind of yell at them.  "I told you to take antibiotic...