Clinic Visit

Welcome back!

I thought that today I would give you a quick tour of the clinic and show you where I spend majority of my day.

We actually have it pretty good here compared with some of the other camps.  Our clinic is in a real building complete with real walls, floor, and roof as opposed to a tent (which is what they have up at Camp Buehring).  The TMC (or Troop Medical Clinic) takes up about 1/3 of the Kuwaiti medical building, but is completely separate from their facilities.  We think it may have been part of a hospital ward at some point.

Check In/Waiting Area

We have all the normal things you would seen in an American clinic including a check-in and waiting area, treatment areas, pharamacy, and work areas. 






Fortunately/Unfortunately, all of our work is also done on computers and AHLTA here in Kuwait is just as frusturating (if not more) than back in the US.  In order to see patient's records from appointments in the US, we have to log onto a completely different system that may or may not work.

Desks, desks, and more desks!
(Mine is the one with the flag- America!)

Treatment Areas

We have a total of 3 treatment areas separated by curtains, similar to a lot of Emergency Rooms, any of which can be a trauma bay. There is a fully stocked crash cart, AED, and all other necessary supplies.




Sink, charts, and lab

Yay medical supplies!



Looks like a pharmacy... or is it a bathroom?

Our pharmacy is pretty well stocked, but is in an interesting location. It used to be a bathroom a long time ago and now has shelves over the old bathtub and built into the shower stall. It's pretty funny to actually think that all of our medications are kept in an old bathroom. At least there wasn't a toilet in there....
We have quite a few medications to treat almost anything, but I don't have all the same ones I have access to back in the US... so that can change how I have to treat my patients.  I'm learning a ton about reordering supplies and medications, which is something I don't really worry about back in the US.
 
There is indoor plumbing here (Yay!), but there is a creepy looking bathtub straight out of a horror movie in it....  It's the type of thing you might wake up covered in ice with your kidneys missing.  Maybe we should set up a haunted house here for Halloween.

Creepy....

Anywho, this one might be less interesting than previous entries... but this is where I spend most of my days :)