A Wrinkle In Time could well describe our Guatemala 2020 medical trip. In late February our medical team left behind our customary lifestyles in the USA to offer clinics in Guatemala sponsored by Hands for Health Foundation and Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine. When we returned three weeks later, accustomed sights had morphed into the surreal. We encountered the CLOSED, CANCELED, and SUSPENDED. In medical offices, which were fast becoming virtual, the dreaded C-word for disease—Cancer-- had ceded first place to Coronavirus.
Consider the bow and arrow, and imagine yourself on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota at the second annual health fair of the Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine (RVU) May 3-4, 2019, after a six-hour drive from Denver.
Sights and insights abounded in the 2019 Guatemala trip in March 2-10. Team members included a first-year student who described collaboration among fellow medical students as well as a sense of being daunted and undaunted
By: Carol Sullivan