Day Twenty-eight Another couple of busy days at work - nothing hugely exciting to report; but several interesting cases - diabetes insipidus in a 10month old with severe failure to thrive - the mother is so caring though, it's really sad to see such a tiny kid, he looks about the size of a 4 month old! Have had some good teaching in the last couple of days as well, which has been really good and I'm trying to remember to learn some scine as well as the clinical...

Day Twenty-Six I have finally managed to get some sleep! Friday, which was a 14hour day last time I wrote, turned into a 21hour day during which I got less than an hour off. Manic. Essentially we had finally dealt with all the emergencies during the day and I had just made it home when the drunk fights started at the boundary. Santa Teresa is a dry community as it is strictly catholic, and following the government intervention to try and reorganise Aboriginal c...

Day Twenty-four Hello again! Friday 13th has come out in force for the people of Santa Teresa - I have just worked a 14hour day with only emergency cases! The slight silver lining of all that, is that because I'm staying here for the weekend (no-one to give me a lift to Alice) I managed to get a quick supermarket shop in when we took a patient to hospital! Woken up by an on-call emergency at just before 6 this morning; an old lady in the community (ok, so I say...

Day twenty-two - A perfect example of Santa Teresa life.... At around 7.30 last night Adam, the nurse on call, rang me. "Alex, there'san emergency to collect - Camilla is having an asthma attack" "Where is she?" "Wandering around the community somehwere, I think near the store, but Duncan (the old guy next door to me) rang to tell me" "Oh, odd - how does he know?" Anyway, I leave home to walk across to the clinic and me...

Day Twenty-One! I don't normally write every day but so many funny stories to tell from the last 24hours that it had to be worth a seperate entry! Last night I walked up the hill behind Santa Teresa again and then on for a bit along the top... good fun and it felt nice to finally get some exercise! Story number one commences on teh way down the hill... firstly I need to explain that there are more flies here than I have ever seen in my life. They are EVERYWHERE...