Another day of almost doing work. No parents came to the school in Las Crucitas despite our forewarning, and the teachers didn’t seem that into it. We found some younger kids at home with their mothers and surveyed them. Luckily, a community health volunteer who works in Las Crucitas and San Antonio came by. He told me the next month’s vaccination/weighing dates for the communities and said he would tell the moms to bring all their kids to be surveyed. Hope springs eternal.
I split the rest of the day between reading NMS Peds, Clinical Micro Made Ridiculously Simple, and a biostats primer. The nerd that I am, I was a fun afternoon. It was the first time I really let myself try to imagine what it will be like to be a pediatrician. Way back in first year, I had a conversation with a third year about primary care vs. emergency peds. He told me I would miss the long-term patient-doctor relationship. I told him I wouldn’t. Now that I’m three years wiser, I think he was right. My mind wandered to community health interventions. Things have changed since first year.
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