Just like back home...sort of.......

Way back when I realized that I was actually planning to go to Uganda (and not Uruguay or some place else that sounds like it), I asked Dr. Troy Lund what exactly I might do all day here. He assured me that Mulago Hospital is effectively Uganda's Hennepin County Medical Center and that I would be doing here pretty much what I do there. Well I kind of have been doing here what I do there, sort of, except....

Take for instance this morning. I was scheduled to give a lecture in the Cancer Center at 8:30 AM, except,






They needed finish mopping the floor before we were allowed to go in. And Isaac and Dennis needed to fix the projector before we could get started.












I got talked into doing a bone marrow biopsy on an old man that really wasn't necessary except to make a better story for reporting him in a medical journal,






Except, the room was really small and filthy and there were no standard Illinois style needles for the aspiration.

I looked at a lot of malignant lymph node biopsies and bone marrow aspirates,






Except I couldn't make any specific diagnoses because thay can't even do a myeloperoxidase stain here, let alone an immunoperoxidase stain.

Concerned people have donated cool stuff,







Except, Dr Troy Lund says that this vehicle has never left this parking lot because no one here is organized enough to plan things like staffing, fueling and ongoing funding.

So, just like HCMC, but don't forget, TIA, which, in case you have forgotten means This Is Africa!


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Location:Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda