Medical Elective Report: Shalin Abrahams and Rachel Scott

We were warned about the food here, but we are beginning to realise the implications of eating dal bhaat (a spicy lentil curry) and rice, with some fried vegetables, 3 meals per day, EVERY DAY. Whilst we are enjoying it now, I can definitely see myself having hallucination side-effects relatively soon.

3. Day One (WARNING: Don’t read this over breakfast!)

And so we woke up, nervous but excited for our first proper day in the hospital. Our day started at 9, where we caught the end of the morning handover with Dr Krishna Lama. We were immediately pulled in to see an emergency case of a man with fever, vomiting and acute abdominal pain. A quick abdominal exam revealed an enlarged liver and tender gall bladder. However, without a working X ray and only a small