This week has started off to afast start! We traveled to chitre which is about a four hour ride from where we were staying in panama city. The rancho kevin where we are staying for this week is better than what i expected although its a much smaller living space than the villas at the city of knowledge. Its three to a room with not much space to walk around when trying to get ready but all in all not so bad. I expected this village to be much more rural than what it is but there is a good amount of stores and a square.
We started our clinical work on Monday. Each villa was assigned to four different clinics. The clinic that I was assigned to has a bunch of specialties combined into one clinic. There is pediatrics, gyneocoloists, dentists, and immunizations. It is much different from the states where one would go to seperate offices to visit a dentisit or gynecologist. These patients come to the clinic normally with their children and visit all the different specialties in one day. All the examinations are free and a pack of birth control is only $2 dollars a month. Today I gave influenza shots and other immunizations to the children and also performed a pap smear. To my surprise the pap smear did not bother me and was rather interseting in a weird way. Maybe I would be suited to work in a gynocologist office.
Tomorrow the panamanian government is changing office therefore every panamanian has the day off. So tomorrow we are going to la playa or the beach! I´m excited to see if the beaches are pretty here, which I heard they are.
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