Hello!! After I got home and was starting to get settled, I got an email with the link to the video which was being filmed my first week in India. CFHI, the organization I was working with, was asked to present a short documentary about itself at the World Health Council 2008 conference. CFHI decided to highlight two of it's India programs, the Than Gaon program where I was at the time and the Delhi program where I spent my last two weeks. I had the opportun...

Well hello!!!! I am Delhi now, which I will be for the rest of my trip.Alyssa and I spent last week in New Delhi working at the Venu Eye Institute and Research Center.I really haven't studied much about eye care before, so it was pretty interesting seeing patients and talking with the doctors and optometrists about the different eye problems and treatments.Venu has a base hospital (which the hostel, a.k.a. dorm, that we stayed in for the week was right next to...

Hi all! I'm really excited right now because I just found out today that Landour Community Hospital where I'm at this week has wireless internet. And, since I have m laptop with me, and it has wireless capabilities, they gave me the password. I've been online all afternoon, but when I realized it was almost 5:00 PM (the time the office closes and the internet gets shut off) I thought I should probably get a blog entry posted. It's been awhile since I could ...

I apologize it's been awhile since I posted a new blog entry, and unfortunately it will be quite awhile longer befopre I can once again. I head up to Than Gaon later this evening and will be there all this week. It's the remote village I spent my first week in, so once again, there will be no internet access while I'm there. Hopefully we will have electricity unlike last time, so I will be able to keep my phones charged and computer and camera working as well!...

Wow, I can't believe my sixth week here is half-way over already! I'm enjoying Rishikesh a lot, but by the end of the week, I will be ready to go back to a place where I get to see more clinical cases. Here, we don't actually watch the doctors interact with the patients much, because by naturopathic theory, the modes of healing are natural. They prescribe massages, baths, diet restrictions, and other less-used treatments, so I can understand why we don't watch...