Patient Care Around the World: Kenya Gabriel Bensaad-Johnson, OMS III, had traveled with a medical team of students, faculty, and volunteers for the better part of four hours to reach patients in a remote Kenyan village. While the village was located hours from the nearest town, it was the flooded roads that continued to prolong their journey. They had patients waiting for them and they had to make every second on the road count. After hours of driving and building makeshift roads out of rocks and planks of wood, the team finally reached a section so flooded that the road had disappeared into a deep lake. The patients themselves would have to walk to reach them. The team set up tents as close to the village as possible, and they soon had a queue of over twenty patients waiting to be seen. Each patient encounter started with an interview and an exam. A translator assisted SD Bensaad-Johnson as he spoke to a woman about issues she had with her eye, which was clearly deviated and not functioning correctly. She also spoke vaguely of chest pain. For her eye, SD Bensaad-Johnson ultimately diagnosed her with temporal arteritis. The visit had taken up a good bit of time, and there were other patients waiting to be seen by the handful of supervising physicians and medical students. But the cause of the patient’s chest discomfort had not yet been determined. A supervising physician nudged SD Bensaad-Johnson to complete the exam and move on to the next patient, but something was bothering him... This article continues at RVUBlog.com....click here to read it. Photos by Gabriel Bensaad-Johnson, Nick Chapman, Dominick Ruybal, Nazar Dubchak, and Jennifer Goodfred
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