Sunday morning.
Last night, Dr Deboer took a group of 8 out to a local
restaurant, "Los Heroes"'. They failed to take anyone with them that
spoke Spanish. After ordering by pointing at various lines of Spanish in the
menu, they ended up with mountains of food. Fortunately, they had our fellow Dr
Jake Stanfield along. He willingly accepted the challenge of leaving no taco
uneaten. Plates were cleaned and
everyone returned to get ready for day 2.
For day 2 we had 4 patients scheduled. Two were second
side surgeries and two were first side. We got off to a later start due to
difficult to insert spinals. Once started tho, things went smoothly. We ran 2
rooms. I was in one room with Dr Amador and Dr DeBoer was in the other room
with Dr Stanfield.
It has been nice to get to operate with Dr Amador again.
Since completing his fellowship with us in Nashville, he has been our man on
the ground in Veracruz. We are all very proud of what he has accomplished here.
His help in organizing the preoperative and postoperative patient clinics has
been immeasurable. He is involved in teaching the ortho residents here at the
hospital and is building a busy practice.
Our last case had to be canceled due to problems with
instrument sterilization. This is always a problem, and with limited back up
instruments it was not possible to fit in the last case. 3 years ago a great
supporter of WalkStrong donated a newly refurbished steam sterilizer to the
hospital. It has dramatically reduced our sterile instrument problems. It has
increased the quality of care for the entire hospital since it is used all year
round. Carlos is always scavenging replacement parts that are used to keep it
in good working order. Due the hard work of all, our sterile instrument
standards in Veracruz are the same as they are in Nashville.
The patient's surgery was moved to first case tomorrow.
The patients from yesterday have done fantastic. They are
working hard on their motion and are walking down the hallway. No issues!!!
Four cases scheduled again for tomorrow.
M J Christie MD
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