Usually my patients come in with a wasmeri or wasman (watch woman or man). In fact, it is required that if you admitted to the hospital that you have a wasmeri or wasman with you, and they do most of your direct care. This little guy showed up to clinic with no one but himself. What you should also take into account is that pretty universally, kids here are kinda freaked out by white man.
Here walks in Mr. Man, with no wasman, and is clearly scared of me. However, we were able to get out of him what was wrong. Although the picture doesn't show it really well, he has parotid gland swelling on his left cheek. He has MUMPS! Add that to the list of things I have never seen in the US.
By the way, I think that is the 3rd or 4th picture I took of him. He looks petrified in the first one, but once I showed him the picture, he got excited. So by this one, I actually got him to smile.
Hey biffy,
ReplyDeleteLove the posts and the pictures, it looks like you are learning alot and having fun at the same time, you are amazing! :-)