Back at JFK Hospital for another visit; others on the team include Dr Santiago Arruffat, Ms Samantha Shoultz. Dr Sepehr Karimi, and Dr Mohammad Ali. We arrived last night after meeting Santiago and Sam at the airport in Brussels; we will once again stay at our home away from home, the Murex Plaza Hotel. There is something very comforting about arriving at a hotel after 20 hours of traveling to be greeted as friends for whom the ritual registration and filling out of paperwork are a formality which can be avoided!
This morning we went to JFK to see our friends once again We delivered our 400 pounds(8 duffel bags) of supplies to the Operating Theater, and then went to Grand Rounds where I was honored to introduce our team. Later on we went to meet the pathologist and see the lab. Then we went to OPD and saw about 30 patients with Dr Clark including a variety of hernias, several thyroids, a parotid tumor, and 2 patients with suspected dermato fibrosarcoma protuberans.
I’m not sure how this is all going to work out on this trip. We have very limited availability of general anesthesia because there is only one anesthesia machine in service, and that one has issues. Today we are going to develop a system to try to maximize productivity in the OT. My experience from past trips allows me to be optimistic that we will overcome the roadblocks that right now seem unpassable; we shall see.
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