Current Trends in Medical Missions (Harold Adolph, M.D.)

When I arrived in Ethiopia in 1966, I found that the OR table was an old metal examination table with only three legs. The fourth leg was made up of various segments of scrap lumber. To gain the height I needed, I placed this contraption on four unusually designed wooden stools.

The OR light was a remnant from someone’s garage and hung on a rusting coat hanger from a sagging ceiling with beams that had almost been completely eaten away by the African termites of the neighborhood. In order to have the light in the area of the surgery, the four stools and table with the patient had to be moved. Read the rest of this entry »