8/15/2018 0 Comments Interview and ponderingsHeading on to the next phase of our trip here has been an enriching experience altogether. We lined up interviews with various doctors form various levels of experience to substantiate and validate the insights and needs and delve more into the solution criteria surrounding the areas of interest and priority that were coming out from the process thus far.
Interviews were as varied as the doctors were. Some shared case studies taking us through grave and dire situations faced by the patients and the surgeons while other times there were light hearted moments of our shared experiences at the hospital. The depth, expertise and conviction of the surgeons never failed to inspire in us the desire to deepen our conviction to serve a community overburdened and unrelieved due to situation and circumstance. As I write this we prepare for our next interview. Seeing poverty and the struggle that the patients face is gut wrenching. Clinics are packed daily and people come from distant places taking even 2 days by train to get here and being really expensive in relation to their wages for the month. Repeatedly we were told of cases where patients were unable to afford treatment if they required multiple visits or complications and had to face hard choices such as paying for a treatment that took most or all their monthly income or keeping the money to provide for their family. What would you have done? Such situations seem to be commonplace. This anecdote gives truth to one of the main reasons why I chose to take up this program. Coming from southeast Asia I witnessed first-hand the healthcare inequality in rural areas across south-east asia and its consequences. Healthcare inequality in todays world is profoundly irrational in the light of technology and expertise that could solve such issues. That said, this why we are here. As ambassadors of Johns Hopkins we arrived but leave as ambassadors for those unable to enable change and institute it. Joshua
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