Otorrinolaringologo

We had an ENT doc come from the states....

His name is Dr. Berry and we had a blast learning from him.  He comes every year for a special ear, nose throat day at our clinic.. 

We announced it to the public ahead of time so there was great anticipation.

 

                  

We saw a lot of swollen tonsils (which he was a little dissapointed that he could not operate on), diagnosed some Mineir´s disease, seasonal allergies, deviated septums, benign paroxysmal vertigo, chronic otits media, TMJ, etc.  We cauterized some bleeding noses and inner cheek sores (aphtas they are called.  I always knew them as kanker sores). 
A new skill I´ve mastered, that of cleaning out the ears, was made easy by a new contraption Dr. Berry brought us which is basically just a spray bottle connected to a little tiny hose.  Once I got past the grossness of what was coming out of these poor folks´ears, it was instantly gratifying when my patients would say ¨I can HEAR now!¨ 

It was good to tag-team the translating with Dr. Joulton who is our full-time Peruvian MD.  He speaks English really well, but I was pretty still pretty useful with some translation.

 ¨Now what do you you think that is?¨ Doctor Berry would ask.  When we would give a wrong answer, he would respond with some cute southern sounding anecdote like ¨Now when you hammer, everything looks like a nail.¨

    In between patients Dr. Berry would tell us about his clinical trials he did for a new throat cancer drug in China, or about how he treated folks like Alison Krauss when he worked at a voice center in Nashville.  He convinced both Dr. Julton and I that we absolutely need to visit the south someday!

   Prayer requests:  We would love to have the capacity for guys like this to do surgeries.  We have some space (our church building next door) but the anastesiologist and equipment, not so much.  Sounds like a lot to ask, but it may be a reality pretty soon!  Will tell you about that next time.  Until then, thanks for reading.
                            -Yvette