Diabetic Destruction
This past week a middle-aged female from a neighboring community presented with a chief complaint of facial swelling. Upon evaluation,...
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Zachary Self
- Mar 12
Light Multipliers
"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." ~John 1:5 Living in rural Guatemala, we are blessed to have...
Zachary Self
- Feb 25
LANGUAGE = ACCESS
Our targeted patient population hails from isolated rural communities with limited access to high quality healthcare. This population is...
Zachary Self
- Feb 19
Now open Saturdays.
"And so it begins" ~King Theoden in Lord of the Rings movie "The Twin Towers" Earlier this month we made modest, but not insignificant,...
Zachary Self
- Feb 12
HALOs & chainsaws
Immediately upon completion of training a physician begins a careerlong battle against skill decay. Gone are the days of medical school...
Zachary Self
- Feb 5
Serving? Or, being served?
This past week one of the patient's I saw in clinic gave me pause. Our patient is a 46 year old gentleman with known HIV/AIDS as well as...
Zachary Self
- Jan 28
AMBU ON-SITE!
Several posts back, we discussed our excitement regarding the addition of an ambulance to our health center in rural Guatemala. This...
Zachary Self
- Jan 21
Not so sweet.
A previous post highlighted our wellness program and its focus on improving the health of our local team members. That post specifically...
Zachary Self
- Jan 14
Roadside Makeover
This past week we broke ground on an exciting roadside development just up the hill from our clinic. While the development is not...
Zachary Self
- Jan 8
Kissed a Bee (epi vs no epi)
As part of the process to obtain my Guatemalan medical license, I spent one year working for the Guatemalan government. For half of...
Zachary Self
- Dec 24, 2022
N. Barrett Self Memorial Scholarship
This year has been replete with exciting additions to our health center in rural Guatemala, but perhaps none more so than the initiation...
Zachary Self
- Dec 20, 2022
BELT & SUSPENDERS
In most fields, redundancy is not optimal and can be deleterious. However, in fields such as healthcare redundancy is beneficial and...
Zachary Self
- Dec 10, 2022
RESUS READY.
The above video is a brief tour of the resuscitation bay on the first floor of our center in rural Guatemala. Featured, in order of...
Zachary Self
- Dec 4, 2022
Hero = Strength for Two
The term "hero" often conjures images of Hollywood action movies and killers of bad guys. However, the etymology of the Greek term...
Zachary Self
- Nov 28, 2022
CLEAN WATER: AGENT FOR CHANGE
For the last several years we have partnered with Ecofiltro and CLEAN international to distribute point-of-use water filters to those who...
Zachary Self
- Nov 23, 2022
A TALE OF TWO FEET
Foot 1: A year or so after we opened our doors, one of our neighbors- a now 86yo lady who lives just down the hill from us- presented for...
Zachary Self
- Nov 14, 2022
AMBU = ACCESS
This post continues with the theme of ACCESS with a focus on TRANSPORTATION. Our clinic can be staffed with an amazing team available to...
Zachary Self
- Nov 6, 2022
Illness does NOT care what time it is
A foundational part of the vision for our health center in rural Guatemala is to provide a vulnerable and marginalized patient population...
Zachary Self
- Nov 1, 2022
the blog is BACK, baby!
After a several year hiatus, Wachalal is bringing back the blog. We hope to use this space to provide more dynamic up to date news about...
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