Thoughts from Day One
Dr. Jeremy Schwartz, Med-Peds Resident at Yale University and KFWH Advisory Board Member, writes of his first experience treating patients in Africa. Thoughts from Day One by Jeremy Schwartz I was seated at a small desk against one of the long walls of this large rectangular room. Before me was a never-ending swarm of activity, full of very sick people — everywhere. This was my first morning at an African hospital. I had been to Africa several times for pleasure and for study as an undergraduate. But this time I was a medical student, fresh out of 3rd year and I was to spend a year in Uganda on a clinical research fellowship. This day, the first of only 2 weeks I spent on the medical wards at Mulago Hospital before shifting up the hill to the considerably cushier confines of our research collaboration clinic, would prove to open my eyes —wide. A senior resident was seated next to me, barely acknowledging my presence. That was OK. My anonymity...
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