Doc Gurley

Feeling the difference today between practicing Haiti-medicine vs. US homeless medicine. An impressively larger gap than you might think… #
Giving a talk on issues regarding underage drinking at a local high school. Great topic. #

Having a Haiti moment at JFK: there is apparently debris all over our runway (source?). We have to go around, on a bus, dragging our bags. #

How quickly we humans normalize even the most extreme scenario – as long as we see it over and over. By now, it seems perfectly normal for our fringed-draped bus to 4-wheel it over piles of rubble. We automatically get out and walk up the steep dirt-road hills of this large urban city while she [...]

Setting up clinic in a new place. People sweep (even dirt) & apologize constantly for rubble and disorder: http://tweetphoto.com/11761893 #

The sun falls and it's a rush to get packed up. Heartbreak day – a 14 yr old girl trying to care for 2 tiny sick malnourished sibs alone. #
Haiti update: people are so thirsty, you can't/shouldn't visibly drink water. We worked in a neighborhood that has seen very little care. #
Haiti: People have no [...]