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juli-ahh · 9 years ago

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HFiT Day Two

Aaaaand I’m back! Hello tumblr. I just got back from my second day of volunteering in the free health clinic in Tijuana. It was particularly difficult to wake up at 5 AM today, but it helps knowing that I get to do something super cool because of it!

Today at the clinic I was helping to get patients registered in our system. We have a really cool app where we could enter the patients and then the doctors could pull them up and see all of their information as they go through the clinic. The only downside with the app is that sometimes it takes a while for the apps to load so it looked like we weren’t doing our jobs even though we were!

It was a slightly uneventful day since I spent most of it sitting in a chair, but it also felt really cool to be one of the faces that greeted patients as they came in to the clinic. I was working with another intern, who is Hispanic and speaks fluent Spanish, so he ended up doing some more of the work but I still got the chance to speak to a handful of patients. We saw a total of 23 patients with all different kinds of reasons for coming in.

I’m looking forward to next week when hopefully I’ll have more of a chance to interact with patients while they receive care, but it is nice to see the clinic from this other angle and continue learning about all of the things that go in to running a free clinic like ours. I was surprised that even though I wasn’t helping with care, I was still touched by a patient who was worrying about her Diabetes because she has kids and she’s running out of the medicine she needs. She was almost in tears, and it was yet another moment when I felt so blessed to be able to help women like this one.

Unfortunately that’s all I have to share for the day, but I’ll keep you all updated if anything else comes to mind and definitely share more with you in two weeks!

#Tijuana #public health #volunteer #make a difference #one patient at a time

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juli-ahh · 9 years ago

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HFiT Day One-1/23/2016

Today was my first day of a program called HFiT. HFiT stands for Health Frontiers in Tijuana, it’s a program sponsored by my school. Basically what will happen over the next 3-6 months is I will drive down to the border every other Saturday and cross in to Mexico, then spend the morning volunteering in a free health clinic for locals in Tijuana. I don’t have a journal, but I wanted a way to keep a record of what happens in the program and I thought tumblr would be a good place to keep that record because a) it’s virtual and b) if it’s public like this I’ll have more pressure to do it every other week. All good things, right?

So to put it lightly, I was slightly to incredibly terrified about what was going to happen today. I went to bed early (around 12) last night so that I wouldn’t sleep through my alarm at 5:00 AM. I woke up on time, picked up the girls in my carpool, and we drove down. Getting in to Mexico was seamless, it was a quick and painless process. We took about a 15 minute walk and ended up at a homeless shelter. The shelter serves food to ~1500 people every day downstairs, and we turned the room upstairs into a clinic. Patients could walk in and register, get their vitals taken, and be seen by one of our on-site doctors and a psychiatrist if need be.

My job for the day was shadowing one of our doctors and writing notes about the patient down on an iPad. They have an app they use to track patient records, which is incredibly helpful except for when a iPad dies or decides to be difficult, but for the most part I didn’t have too many problems. We saw all kinds of patients with various problems, and I had the pleasure of being able to chat with many of them. Sometimes I struggled a little bit because most of the patients spoke in Spanish with the doctors, and I speak Spanish but not quite at the level that I can keep up with everything that is being said. I was a little frustrated about this, and I was upset that I felt I was holding back the doctor and using his time to translate to me, but he didn’t seem to mind too much. I knew this would be the case going in to this internship, and now I just have a way to practice lots of Spanish and learn a lot of the medical terms in Spanish.

Despite the language barrier, I was still able to connect with a few of our patients. One man lived in the United States for over 50 years, but since he wasn’t born there he was deported six months ago. He told me that he always knew he was supposed to get a green card, and he put it off so long until he was caught. He has a huge family and they’re all in America, and he told me he wishes he had a better career to provide for such a large family. He was gushing over his oldest son, who has done very well for himself and become a professor at a university in America, and he told me that he’s working on the ability to spend six months out of the year in America with his family. Talking to this man was the first time during this internship that I realized how incredibly lucky I am to have been given the life I have. I was born in the United States, I have access to quality healthcare every time I need it, and yet I still find things to complain about. This man had such a touching story and reason to complain, yet he spent most of the time talking to me about how much he loves his whole family. I’m sure this is the first of many times during this internship that I will feel this way.

I also spoke with another patient in Spanish, so we were both a little bit shy at first. Some of the patients didn’t try to make conversation with me while we waited for the doctor, but this man politely asked if I spoke Spanish first and then I could tell he was trying to speak very slow and precisely during our conversation. He was an older man, maybe in his 40′s, and he told me that he was in the process of taking classes to get a high school diploma. He said it was difficult, though, because they are trying to cram 12 years of school in to one year but I just told him that it’s still incredible that he was doing that in the first place. I think it’s wonderful that people like him are seeking help and using resources like our clinic and the shelter to take care of themselves.

This man was the last patient we saw, then we cleaned up the clinic and walked back to the border. I feel like I’ve already learned so much and I’m so inspired and eager to help already, and I honestly can’t wait for next week to see who else I will get to meet and find out how else I can assist these wonderful individuals in this community.

#That's all for day one #it was wild #and I'm exhausted #and I have a lot of studying to do #but I'm going to do it #because I realized that if I really want to make a difference in the world #I should be like the doctors that volunteer their time in this clinc #they're really the ones that can give medications and help these people feel better #and I'm honored to be there to help with the whole process #public health #global health #Tijuana #UCSD

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juli-ahh · 9 years ago

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