placenta does not belong in your hair

29th March 2008

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Rafi in Uganda

Rafi’s finishing his internal medicine residency by spending a month practicing medicine in rural Uganda. He’s been blogging about his experiences in African medicine, and I’ve found his thoughts deeply moving and insightful. He comes back to the Bronx today and here’s his take home:

“I hope to return to this place or someplace similar to it in the future to practice medicine the old-fashioned way without millions of expensive tests to distance you from the patient and provide easy answers but to solve the mysteries of the human body by speaking with the patients and carefully examining them.”