Roadside Makeover Update
In a prior post at the start of the year we shared plans for a Roadside Makeover. As outlined in the prior post, the hope is that the...
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Zachary Self
- Apr 14
Broken Hearts (Echo blog series- Case 2)
Case 2: "I would like to buy a valve, please." A thirtysomething year old female presented to our center with complaints of shortness of...
Zachary Self
- Apr 9
Easter Baskets & Health Inequities
Easter, the holiday, rightfully evokes many positive emotions and feelings: love, joy, and hope to name a few. Easter baskets, however,...
Zachary Self
- Mar 26
Broken Hearts (new blog series)
Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) is integral to the care we provide at our center in rural Guatemala. We incorporate POCUS as an...
Zachary Self
- Mar 19
Diabetic Destruction
This past week a middle-aged female from a neighboring community presented with a chief complaint of facial swelling. Upon evaluation,...
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...
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