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July
Moms asking me for my number if they liked the care their children got.
The minimalist pediatric ward at Port Antonio hospital.
The doctors at Annotto Bay keeping a 900 gram 28 weeker alive with CPAP after Bustamante was unable to take him because one of their babies needed the only available ventilator.
A road accident outside Port Maria with one of the victims lying in the road.
Inep and naceberries.
The way the sea turns pink at sunset.
Running into the mom of a child I diagnosed with appendicitis in Port Maria, outside the surgical ward in Annotto Bay.
Chickens in the courtyard and goats in the parking lot.
Too many road accidents — nobody wears seatbelts.
Reggae in the morning, reggae in the evening, reggae at nighttime, on Irie radio.
A 7 year old yelling “please doctor! I beg of you!” while I was suturing a laceration on her foot, then jumping off the gurney and running screaming through A&E when I was only halfway done.
A restaurant in Annotto Bay called “Juss Enuff”.
My other favorite Jamaican business — Car Wash and Bar.
Dr Ramos’ teaching rounds — What am I thinking of, doctor?
Learning to sail the Hobie cat.
An 8 year old rasta with his dreads in a tam.
Ackee and saltfish.
Conversations with the drivers, mostly about food.
Seeing things I never see, like hemophilia, and things I always see, like asthma.
Who Cook It Betta?
Singing along to “Three Little Birds” on the way to Annotto Bay — Cameron, the driver, said we should all listen to it every morning of our lives — I agree.
The kids of St Mary’s and Portland parishes.
Soon come.
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