My daughter, who is
interested in medicine, grew up with medical magazines lying about the house.
While other families had magazines with pretty photos of beautiful living rooms
or pretty clothes. My coffee tables had magazines with oozing sores and
gross rashes. Instead of a 10 questions about relationships, our home had guess
the rash questionnaires. When we would go on vacation I would insist on going
to the Leper museum in Norway or the Old Medical Theater in London to view the
old medical instruments.
My daughter went to
Ghana over Spring Break, with Projects Abroad, to get some practical experience providing health care. She ended up cleaning sores and changing
bandages at a leper facility. She had a
great time. That is what happens when
you expose your child to medical magazines strewn about the house instead of
Southern Living magazine. If I had
subscribed to House Beautiful magazine do you think she would have been an interior
designer?
Here in the U.S. we tend to
think we have the best medical care in the world. Or at least that is
what I see on the news. Finding medical information is sometimes
difficult. Many publications and articles require a subscription. This
must be even more difficult if you are a provider in a third world country.
I have discovered a
wonderful website named Global Help whose mission is:
"The Global-HELP Organization,
commonly referred to as HELP (Health Education using Low-cost Publications),
provides free health-care information to developing countries and is committed
to making medical knowledge accessible worldwide. Thanks to advances in
software and communication, we can now make these publications available to
places and people throughout the world. HELP is a humanitarian organization
that is non-political and values racial, cultural, and religious
diversity."
The Global HELP web site was developed by Drs.
Lynn and Lana Staheli after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to help disseminate free medical information to
third world countries and to improve the health care of people around the
world.
Global HELP has a wonderful PDF on
Cerebral Palsy with lots of photos and descriptions of care. Take a look over their selection of medical videos.
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