we had about 8 0r 9 new "graduate" trainees at the Hospital today...and saw at least 40 women/patients....many of whom needed follow-up and or biopsies..so all-in-all a very good day. Interesting side note: the Hospital was one built by Pres. Somosa in the bad old days- for the wealthy only...Wounded (guerilla ) patients were brought into the OR during the Revolution and the National Guard slaughtered the Dr's and Nurses and the patients. You can still see some holes in the walls from machine gun fire.

It felt a bit like a native american sweat lodge in the exam rooms without air cond :-/ but such is life in the tropics...going thru liters of bottled H2O

A Japanese woman film maker. Emiko is along on this trip filming our project. She won "Best of Show" for a short documentary on Pincc in Africa at the Bernal Heights Film Festival in SF.

Cheers, Mai