Monday, December 25, 2006

Joyeux Noel!

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"Oh the weather outside is delightful. . ." Everything's upside down in Haiti, including the words to this song, though they a...
Sunday, December 17, 2006

One of the Differences Between the Haiti and the Dominican Republic

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Please make sure you read to the end of this post to discover what the photograph to the right is of. I haven't written much about Haiti...
Saturday, December 16, 2006

Kidnapping II

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Here are a few more points about the kidnappings. The kidnappings terrorize the rich and the poor. No class of people has been immune from b...
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Kidnapping

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I was going to write a post about the kidnapping that's been going on in Haiti lately. Then I read the post my husband wrote at his fant...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Trapped

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The vivid blue bowel of a sky was undiluted by clouds except where they ringed the horizon, strewn over the brown mountain peaks. With the s...
Sunday, December 10, 2006

The Face of AIDS in Haiti

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You may read reports of the numbers of children in the developing world who are afflictedwith HIV-AIDS. Here is one young man in Haiti who h...
Friday, December 08, 2006

Merry Christmas Maxime!

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We had a major victory this week! Maxime, a 21-year-old young man, pictured to the right was accepted at a major medical century for heart s...
Wednesday, December 06, 2006

"Team of Rivals: The Political Genuis of Abraham Lincoln"

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I've loved everything I've read by Doris Kearns Goodwin from the Kennedys and the Fitzgeralds to No Ordinary Life about Franklin an...
Monday, December 04, 2006

What's Up? Who Knows.

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It’s a riddle wrapped in mystery inside an enigma. Winston Churchill described Russia this way, but he just as easily could have been talkin...
Friday, December 01, 2006

Children of the Slums

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These are pictures John took this week during his work in Cite Soleil and LaSaline, two Port-au-Prince slums where the poverty is vicious. B...
Thursday, November 30, 2006

Books Gone Wild

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I’m way behind in my book reviews. On this overlong trip (four months and counting), I have read Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza, Pride ...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006

A Pictorial of Haitian Slums

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I’ve posted pictures of some of the worst slums in the world: Cité Soleil, LaSaline, Warf Jeremie. They are all in Port-au-Prince and aren’t...
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Saturday, November 25, 2006

Filling the Water Jug

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The details tell a story. Take the water jug in our little refrigerator, for example. The water that comes out of the faucets in Port-au-Pri...
Thursday, November 23, 2006

Happy Thanksgiving from Haiti

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Did you know that the national U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving began during the depths of the Civil War? Thanksgiving was celebrated at various...
Friday, November 17, 2006

Jenny

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One of the most rewarding parts of being in Haiti is seeing Haitian Hearts patients. To the right is 5-year-old Jenny. This dynamic little g...
Saturday, November 11, 2006

Hungry & Sick

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A couple of weeks ago, we had lunch at the Hotel Montana, a fancy-schmancy place that overlooks Port-au-Prince. We met Dr. Gretchen Berggren...
Thursday, November 09, 2006

Who Gets a Chest X-ray?

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Above is a picture of a chest x-ray from one of John's patients. Many people come to the clinic with bad sounding lungs and getting an x...
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Friday, October 27, 2006

The Comeback Kid Part II: Willy Fortune Malavolti

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Prayers, the will to live, and good medical care can go a long way in keeping a person alive as they did with our friend Willy Fortune. Here...
Thursday, October 19, 2006

The Innocents

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My husband John, besides being an amazing doctor, also takes some amazing pictures, this being one of them. On the way to clinic, the driver...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

The UN's Commitment Problem

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Last week an orphanage in Croix-des-Boquets, a village not far from Port-au-Prince, was attacked. The orphanage director, a Catholic sister,...