Pediatric Rounds, Lalibela, Axum
It has been a few days since I last wrote because it has been an action packed six days. I'm now sitting in an internet cafe 125 km from Eritrea, along the palm tree lined streets of Axum. Rather than give a day-by-day accounting of my past week, I'll focus on the three highlights listed in the title of this post. Pediatric Rounds at Black Lion Last Thursday I spent the morning at Black Lion shadowing the pediatric residents and interns as they did rounds. When trying to set up a study on pediatric Hodgkin's Lymphoma, I emailed with a pediatrician at Black Lion, Dr. Haileyesus Adam. I met him during my previous visit to Black Lion and I was able to finally get him on the phone and finagled an invite to shadow. We started the day with coffee in the hospital's shai bet (which is really just a few tables in the main lobby with waitresses shuttling trays of macchiatos and juice). Dr. Haileyesus explained that there are no "specialists" among the pediatricia...