Last day of work.

August 30 Good morning. I hope all of you had a good weekend. I helped my friend Stu Ross move into his new house on Saturday and had lunch with some friends. The restaurant service was glacial, but the conversation made the afternoon speed by. We spent a lot of time...

Friday

August 26 I started the day with our annual meeting at Kikuyu Orthopedic Rehabilitation Centre. As usual the talk was of helping the patients and equipment. We are equipping a laboratory on site. Here to for, the patients had to up a hill to the main hospital which...

A Day at Chogoria

August 25 I started the day in a conference with the interns and residents on the surgical service. The discussion was about the ethics of caring for the patient and families as a patient approached death and when the patient died. It was a good discussion that...

Disability Community Center

August 24 We had a good meeting with Oliver, the director, of the Disability Community Center. We talked about the challenges brought on by the pandemic. In an effort to cut down on the number of people coming to the center they increased their outreach clinics from 4...

A day in the OR

August 23 I assisted in the operating room today on one of the most complex hand cases I have ever seen. A five year old boy had lost the use of his ulnar nerve due to a forearm fracture. Dr. Kinyua did a great job. It involved moving 3 tendons to replace the lost...