Tanzanian EM and Lounging 101
What a whirlwind. Four weeks come and gone. Countless patients, great adventures, some work, lots of play, and another month in Addis in the books. It was by turns exciting, frustrating, beautiful, sad, and inspiring. One of the exciting things about spending a month in Addis is that you never quite know what each day will hold - it may be a day of morning lectures, critical care rounds, a relaxed lunch, a visit to another hospital in the afternoon and then dinner and drinks at night. Or it may be lecture followed by a crashing patient with no one else around, a walk between hospitals that takes you through a sketchy used car and farm fresh vegetable market, being followed/harassed by street children begging for money, a wedding with building-shaking music that lasts til midnight, and routing traffic jams while cars are stopped across the city for visiting African Union dignitaries. You just never know... So let's hit on a few highlights and I'll try to keep it relatively no