It’s been an eventful weekend. Yesterday I wrote a presentation on hypertension and included a bunch of handouts that might help my colleagues avoid ancient meds and odd combinations that really have no place in medicine, even here. Also it tries to help avoid combinations of three and four meds that are at entry level doses and can be condensed to two, thereby dramatically improving compliance.
Last night we had a third year medicine resident from Penn and her husband, an Assembly of God preacher. A delightful conversation lead to an invite to hear a local preacher this morning. We went out to an area remote from Gabs, to a tent, where we heard a preacher invite the Holy Spirit into the tent with voice at full volume. It was very eventful and full of emotive singing, praising, speaking at highest volume to about 60 people in a tent in rural Botswana. After an hour of this, we were a touch fatigued from the shouting and yelling. And then, at the end of the service, things returned to the understated conversation voice that is classic Batswana, just like that. It was very interesting and compelling.
The afternoon has been cool believe it or not, with rain and wind, very refreshing. Tough to think we’ll be in Philly in one week…
1 comment:
Mike, loved the discussion on global CYA and your inviting the Holy Spirit tent meeting. You are touching all bases.
Belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Shekina starts the basketball season soon and girls are well. Things have settled nicely and I am getting used to the regular drives down the gorge to see Sandy.
Stay well and praying for your health check in Philly. Be sure to follow doctors orders, really.
Take care and say Hi to Lynne.
Brian
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