Finally, a link to my photos from this great trip!

I can't believe we've been back for almost a month now - and the next team specializing in Cardiothoracic surgery just arrived in Phnom Penh today for their mission. I wish I could join them! Because of the surgery they're doing, they'll be at Calmet Hospital, I believe, which is a little more sophisticated than our Kossamak Hospital. I'm sure they'll do a tremendous amount of good for some very needy patients, and my thoughts are with them..


A few of our Gyn/Onc team members met with the new Neurosurgical team led by Dr. Sean Markey for a 'debriefing' this past Thursday. That team will be heading over to our same Kossamak Hospital in mid-March, so they'll be dealing with pretty much the same O.R. conditions that our group experienced. (And it sounds like they've got some pretty challenging brain tumors lined up already - so another adventure begins!)

We gave them lots of handy pointers (uh, like - be sure to take two Pepto Bismol morning and evening just BECAUSE!!, take the extra-strength DEET, pack lots of hand sanitizer and Power Bars, etc.) - and we may have terrorized them a bit with a few of our stories about the equipment issues over there.  But I've referred them to this blog and the the new link with assorted photos (handily divided into mini albums)- with a few ridiculous mini-video iphone clips at the end. I hope my pictures give them, and anyone else who takes a look, at least an idea of the myriad of feelings we experienced when we were there. What an amazing, great country!

I'm still going to do my two catch-up blogs on Saran's village and The Killing Fields/Toeul Sleng - but in the interim, I've included the photos from those trips in my mobile-me gallery link.

http://gallery.me.com/arnear

Enjoy!!