Well..I have finished four weeks here in India...it's almost half over. Time is definitely going by fast. This week was another interesting one. The most exciting thing that happened was when I was at Dr. Gandhi's clinic. He is a cardiologist and emergency med doctor. We were going on rounds with him listening to everyone's heart so we could learn good and bad sounds. We were in the ICCU when Dr. Gandhi gets called over to a man's bed. This man has a compl...

Well, today I started my fourth week of rotations here in India...but this past weekend I had the privilege of visiting Agra and the Taj Mahal. It was absolutely amazing. The 10 hour car ride there was definitely an experience in itself but it was well worth it. Seeing the Taj was very surreal. I had always seen it in books but never dreamed I would see it in real life and there I was standing in the Taj Mahal. It is still hard to believe I was there but it ...

It has been a fun week since I last wrote. The wedding was absolutely beautiful and a really fun time. We got to Chandigarh(the town the wedding was in) on Saturday and spent the afternoon shopping around and eating! Chandigarh was built by westerners so it definitely reminded us of a city back home. It was very clean in Indian standards and the streets were actually wide enough to fit more than one car. Sunday we were on a mission to find Mendi or Henna as ...

Well, the last couple of days have been fairly uneventful in terms of India. I have been really busy every day between clinics and checking out the city of Dehra Dun. One really exciting thing was that I got to see a birth today...first one ever! It was a fairly easy delivery and the baby came out quick but it was still cool to be in on the event. It was kind of sad though because in India the men are not able to be in the delivery room during the birth or an...

So this is the end of my second day on my second rotation. These last couple of days have taught me one important thing...I definitely do not want to be a doctor or nurse! I went to the OBGYN clinic and ended up watching Dr. Gera finish 2 abortions surgically. Abortion is basically the birth control here in India. Women get pregnant and then go to a chemist which is like a drug store and get drugs that will kill the baby but it doesn't complete the abortion s...