Day Twenty-four Hello again! Friday 13th has come out in force for the people of Santa Teresa - I have just worked a 14hour day with only emergency cases! The slight silver lining of all that, is that because I'm staying here for the weekend (no-one to give me a lift to Alice) I managed to get a quick supermarket shop in when we took a patient to hospital! Woken up by an on-call emergency at just before 6 this morning; an old lady in the community (ok, so I say...

Day twenty-two - A perfect example of Santa Teresa life.... At around 7.30 last night Adam, the nurse on call, rang me. "Alex, there'san emergency to collect - Camilla is having an asthma attack" "Where is she?" "Wandering around the community somehwere, I think near the store, but Duncan (the old guy next door to me) rang to tell me" "Oh, odd - how does he know?" Anyway, I leave home to walk across to the clinic and me...

Day Twenty-One! I don't normally write every day but so many funny stories to tell from the last 24hours that it had to be worth a seperate entry! Last night I walked up the hill behind Santa Teresa again and then on for a bit along the top... good fun and it felt nice to finally get some exercise! Story number one commences on teh way down the hill... firstly I need to explain that there are more flies here than I have ever seen in my life. They are EVERYWHERE...

Day twenty! Another busy day in the clinic today - I left Alice with Dr Hope at 6.50 this morning and effectively haven't stopped since! It seems that amazingly the patients only continued to arrive for an hour after official closing time today, so fingers crossed for a quiet evening! I think it means that there will be lots of call outs for the people on call tonight though; I am covering women's business (the local term for all problems remotely related to an...

Day Eighteen (I think!) Back in Alice for the weekend; the clinic were very keen for me to stay and be on call, but I needed to escape! Five 12+hour days a week is enough for me! Am back in Alice where I can expose my shoulders and work on my tan (oh, so fickle!).... am debating hiring a car for the day and heading out to the desert park; should be good fun and the weather is lovely (if very very hot!), otherwise I might work on my laziness and lie by the pool ...