Interdisciplinary meeting

The CMO, the plastic surgeon, the wound care nurse, the neurosurgeon, a psychologist, and myself met this evening to discuss one of my patients. I'm not gonna get into the details of her illness (enough already today), but let's just say she's very chronically ill.

We were all mentally and physically exhausted. And there are so many patients at our hospital, not to mention all over Haiti, who could benefit from the extremely limited opportunities to go to the US for further care.

But we still all met and talked for over an hour after work about what more could we do for her. From outside of the walls of this hospital, what could we get her that would make her life longer or better.

We didn't come to a solution. But its really so remarkable how willing and eager everyone is to do everything they can to help these people. Coming down here isn't enough. Working all day everyday (and sometimes through the night) without breaks isn't enough.

Awesome.