Ventura Grand Rounds: Part 3
With this post we wrap up our three part series sharing a presentation given at Ventura County Medical Center earlier this year as part...
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Zachary Self
Oct 13
Art & Fear... & Global Health
One of our daughters, Natalie, enjoys making art. She and I have been working our way (in fits and starts as any respectable artist...
Zachary Self
Oct 7
Sugarcane as Risk Factor for HIV
Last week a 43yo male presented to clinic with a chief complaint of "weakness." He also reported weight loss and decreased appetite. ...
Zachary Self
Sep 27
Racin' Round Town... Unencumbered by Reality
Guatemala celebrates its Independence Day each year on September 15th. Independence “Day” is a bit of misnomer as the celebration spans...
Zachary Self
Sep 15
Potpourri of Patients & Pathologies
Per the Cambridge Dictionary, one definition of potpourri is: "an unusual or interesting mixture of things." For this post, I selected a...
Zachary Self
Sep 8
Roots & Branches
I recently had the pleasure of spending some time with the Health Talents International team at Hospital Ezell. The facility occupies a...
Zachary Self
Sep 8
Ventura Grand Rounds: Part 2
With this second installment of a presentation shared at Ventura County Medical Center earlier this year as part of their Health Equity...
Zachary Self
Aug 12
Clinic Tour (OG Version)
This one's a bit of a bonus post. I recently rediscovered this brief video tour of our site from 2015. It was featured prominently in...
Zachary Self
Aug 11
Death by... Mosquito Bite
This year has been a record breaking year for cases of dengue. The number of reported cases in Guatemala thus far in 2024 is up nearly...
Zachary Self
Aug 10
Ventura Grand Rounds: Part 1
The below video is the first of a three part series of posts sharing the presentation given earlier this year at Ventura County Medical...
Zachary Self
Aug 4
Podcast Shoutout
Wachalal was referenced in a recent episode of the popular medical podcast, Stimulus with Rob Orman, MD . Rob is a well respected and...
Zachary Self
Jun 30
Imaging Upgrade... AI Powered Digital X-Ray!
In our most recent blog post we shared exciting news regarding a recent lab upgrade powered by AI. This post shifts our attention to...
Zachary Self
Jun 30
Lab Upgrade... World's Smallest CBC Test!
The robots are coming!!... and our site in rural Guatemala has joined the AI revolution with our most recent lab upgrade. A couple of...
Zachary Self
Jun 25
Hope... Reinforced with Rebar
In our neighborhood- and throughout much of the world, particularly in low and middle income countries- rebar protruding from structures...
Zachary Self
Mar 10
"I'm going to die!"
This is a story of near drowning. Recently a 71 year old female who had not been seen in clinic for several months returned. She...
Zachary Self
Feb 25
Free Air &... Coconuts (?)
Last week a 32yo male presented to our clinic with generalized abdominal pain. He was tachycardic with a soft blood pressure. On...
Zachary Self
Feb 17
Bad Beans
This week in clinic I saw a 48 year old male. We'll call him Juan (because that's his name). Juan had multiple vague symptoms (excessive...
Zachary Self
Feb 11
Epicenter of a Guillain Barré outbreak (?!)
In recent weeks, there has been an alarming increase (to the tune of seeing a case number in the past few weeks that it would normally...
Zachary Self
Feb 4
Starving to Death... in a World that is Eating Itself to Death
A recent story in one of the local Guatemalan newspapers highlighted a sobering statistic. "Se observa un incremento del 25.7% de casos...
Zachary Self
Feb 3
back, back to Cali, Cali (briefly)
As an add-on to a scheduled work commute last month, I spent a couple of days back in Ventura, California before heading to Northern...
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