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Blogotá!: 05/07/10
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Viernes, 7 de mayo de 2010. The most interesting part of the conference was questioning the role and responsibility of the Anthropologist who conducts ethnography within the health/medical context. One of the key note speakers, an Anthropologist who conducted fieldwork in Laeticia with an indigenous group of people living with HIV, commented: “You have to ask yourself, what is the purpose of this ethnography? One might ask, well what about her family? Beyond publishing her story in some academic journal ...
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Blogotá!: La Mona
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Viernes, 7 de mayo de 2010. The most interesting part of the conference was questioning the role and responsibility of the Anthropologist who conducts ethnography within the health/medical context. One of the key note speakers, an Anthropologist who conducted fieldwork in Laeticia with an indigenous group of people living with HIV, commented: “You have to ask yourself, what is the purpose of this ethnography? One might ask, well what about her family? Beyond publishing her story in some academic journal ...
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Blogotá!: The US Navy and too much T.P
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Viernes, 21 de mayo de 2010. The US Navy and too much T.P. These are some observations from my second week in Bogotá…funny to read them now the night before my departure! When you pay for your groceries in Bogotá, the cashier asks you: “En cuantas quotas se lo quiere pagar? 8221; This is the moment my raised eyebrows reveal I am a gringa. Oh! Cash machines have little mirrors on each side of the screen so that you can see behind you when you take your money out. Just to be safe. Some great examples are:.
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Blogotá!: 04/06/10
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Martes, 6 de abril de 2010. First Day at Work. Today I went to the Parche. The Parche recently changed locations, so this morning we walked around the neighborhood fetching children who might want to attend the alphabetization workshop. The people that live in the Santa Fé area, where the Parche is located, generally live in utmost squalor. We turned onto cracked streets and knocked on doors inside smelly, dumpy apartment buildings. This boy was truly an angel. We headed back to the Parche, passing prost...
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Blogotá!: 04/13/10
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Martes, 13 de abril de 2010. When I walked into the Parche today, Willie* hailed me over to help translate a song into English. He had written down a verse that he liked on a big sheet of paper and on top of the verse he wrote, “La Calle.” It read:. 8220;Esta es la historia de un caminante Judio errante. Andante que su ego va en busca de un por venir. Errante andariego que va en busca de un por venir. Acabo de la espada para sobrevivir”. 8220;This is the story of a wandering walker (or runaway). Ten-year...
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Blogotá!: Listening and Tears
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Martes, 2 de abril de 2013. I've decided to use this space to add stories from my medical career that build off of my experiences in Bogota.now, 3 years later, here is a new entry:. Observing. Listening. Reacting. Listening. Listening. That was the beat of my day. I’ll start with the last part, since my emotional reaction from the whole day decided to come out then and motivated me to write again. To write something that wouldn’t be an email, or a patient note. What did I just see?
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Blogotá!: 03/30/10
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Martes, 30 de marzo de 2010. Would a sex worker go to church? Woke myself up again sneezing twelve times. In polluted cities, sneezing is the rousing rooster. Then I took my first shower in my apartment…it called for a “would you rather” question: would you rather have a trickle of HOT water or a strong FLOW of cold water? These are showers that choose to save energy when they feel pooped out, turning off every 3 minutes or so…ah well, still emerged with a clean head. Most of the minors that hang around ...
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Blogotá!: 04/20/10
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Martes, 20 de abril de 2010. After the consultation, Dr. T looked over some of the histories of past patients and gave me eight different cases where patients had experienced some kind of barrier that prevented them from receiving or seeking appropriate care. Dr T. is going to contact these patients via phone or through house visits together so we can see if they wouldn’t mind being interviewed. I know that it is much more complicated that that, but if so, could solutions to poverty (i.e reformed hea...
