Archive for January, 2014

I returned to Port-au-Prince in early January to continue our mission of training the residents at the State University Hospital. I was able to coax my brother Tom, an anesthesiologist in Colorado Springs, to accompany me. Normally, we do 90% of our cases with only local anesthesia and save the most invasive for the main OR, where general anesthesia is available. The problem is, the turnover time between patients was upwards of 90 minutes, meaning we could only do a ...