A balance approach

The day after the lawyer spoke, discouraging all of us, they had doctors come speak with us on various specialties. The doctors told us how to assess, treat, etc. Basically, everything that the Lawyers told us not to do. 

The last day the guy in charge of Missionary Medical came in to talk. When asked about that, he told us "don't do anything stupid" and "don't tell the lawyers." Officially, we are just supposed to be consulting and advising. But it sounds like they are expecting us to make the best use of the skills that we bring with us. It still leaves us wondering what we really will be doing. 

It looks like we will primarily be helping keep the missionaries in country healthy. Prior to the advent of the Missionary Medical program, on any given day, they found that 38% of the missionaries were in their apartments sick. These young people (and even older missionaries) just don't have the life experiences to know how to stay healthy in third world nations where they don't have safe food and water supplies. 

So Leiana will be teaching and promoting health safety, dealing with those who don't follow the instructions, helping coordinate missionaries on medications, helping advise the mission leaders on how to interpret what the local doctors are reporting, and [her favorite] administering the medical paperwork. 

One more week of training before we head to the Philippines. No clue what next week's training will be on.

Check back with us in a couple of months to see how far off base we were....

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