Since I was either on call or Csection call 4 times in the past 8 days I figured I would eventually get to experience the new Operating Theatre. Yesterday was the day. Betty needed a Csection because she wasn't progressing well. I asked Becky if she...

Today the missionaries celebrated Thanksgiving after our normal work day. There were many times when I stopped myself from saying Happy Thanksgiving to patients, they just wouldn't understand. Since there are a lot of us on station this year, we didn't...

Rebekah is a medical student from Switzerland who has been with us for 2 months now. She speaks German and a number of other languages, but English wasn't one of those. So speaking English every day was a challenge for her, but a good challenge. When I...

We are having problems with our toilets in the new hospital. People are putting anything and everything down the holes which blocks up the sewer. While I was away, everything was blocked, and it was a dirty, smelly job to pump the sewage beyond the...

The road conditions of PNG are always interesting. Huge potholes are found throughout the "highway." Bridges and roads are washed away requiring cars to travel through the crick/river below to get past. Places that use to have a bridge for a car to...