Saturday stuff

Today I went to PMH to round and see what it was like on a Saturday in anticipation of being on call next weekend. Nicola is on call today and showed me how what seems to work on the male and female side of the medicine wards. The computer system “is up” but that unfortunately doesn’t mean that the desired info has been
a) registered on the system,
b) generated by the lab or x-ray,
c) placed back on the system,
d) under the right name and accessible.

I find that I have been here just long enough to experience the frustrations of the immense lack of efficiencies but not long enough to have creative ways of working around/through them. This morning was delightful as there were few people on the wards and the nurses were very collaborative and could more easily approach me. The happy median is out there, I know it, just can’t quite find it yet.

North Side School, a private school where many expats enrol their kids is having a school fair to raise money. The mix of ethnicities is amazing; orthodox Hindis with top knots, orthodox Moslem, shorts wearing westerners, some Batswana. Interestingly there were many over weight kids that you simply don’t see on the play ground of a national school.

It looks like I’ll start part time outreach in another month and then assume it fulltime in January. After six weeks I continue to marvel at the luck, pluck, and challenges we (mostly Lynne as this is ALL new to her) have and are faced with. At some very real level we ARE truly fortunate to be this age and stage and facing this life, together.