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Here is in short a description of my medical mission in Mexico in 2007.

Dr Elaine Martel and nurse Isabelle Bédard from Canada joined me for their first medical mission

For more please visit this page: http://www.mymedicalmissions.com/blog/?page_id=122

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Hi,

Since getting a webmaster to follow me on all my different projects is almost impossible, I will post the info and pics on my medical missions here on the blog. I will try to make it as pleasant looking as possible. I am like a year and a half behind and will try to catch up on all the medical missions I have attended as all had great stories and people.

Today, I want to share with you the medical mission I attended in Tequila, Mexico in october 2008.

All right, so we have a go! I can upload pictures and tell you about the medical mission in Tequila, Mexico.

Since, I am joining the Austin medical mission group Texas, I needed to arrive one day earlier in Guadalajara, Mexico. I got a ride from the airport from Georgia and Tino two Americans now living in Mexico. Although they kindly offered me to stay at their house, I had already made arragments to stay at the El Tapatio Hotel for the night. The staff was friendly and my room was huge.

El tapatio hotel, self-picture

My terrace at the Hotel

After a nice hot shower (the last one for a week! ), a great 5$ club sandwich, I took a long night of sleep.

In the morning, Georgia and Toni came to get me and we went to meet with the group from Texas. It is always a pleasure to see my friends again. We were a group of about 30 people composed of nurses, dentists, doctors, one chiropractor, translators and support staff.

The dentists were held up at customs for three hours as the customs agents were concerned they could be bringing in instruments to sell them.

After a nice ride on the bus catching-up with my friends we arrived in Tequila.

Tequila church

We then settled in the palce where we were going to sleep for the week. Francisco Perez, a member of our team is from Tequila and his extended family was our host. We ate like kings!

Francisco Perez, Liz and me in Tequila

On the first day of the medical mission, we stayed in Tequila. The pace was very moderate compared to what we are used to so we had time to get together with the group.

I was shocked to realize that I had seen in one day seven cases of cerebral palsy!

Dr Rick Barrett, our chiropractor, was very busy and for lack of space, we needed to set-up his office on the second floor. Rick always accepted my requests with a gracious smile when I asked him to come down and treat a patient that was in a wheelchair. Everytime, he just brought his treatment table down and worked on whoever needed it.

Dr Barrett working on Leti, a 15 year old girl who had cerebral palsy and hydrocephalia

We work as a team

When I go on medical missions, I attend to the children and women under 35 years old as I have not seen adults in my practice with such conditions as diabetes and high blood pressure in many years.

Beautiful Baby seen during my day

For more on this mission, please click here: http://www.mymedicalmissions.com/blog/?page_id=44

I am also in no way advocating an interventionist approach to maternity and childbirth. Mother nature recognizes her ways better than we do.
people have to realize that physicians and nurses are not the sole responsible for the high rate of intervention in obstetric today. How many times did I have to calm down adult females who demanded to be induced one month ahead because they were tired of being pregnant? I still can’t get over the time a husband almost jumped at us saying: “My wife has been having contractions every five minutes for over an hour. Do something!” A nurse later asked me: “Didn’t he read the “brochure?” that first infants take usually twelve of hours to be born.
On the other hand, I am happy that such aberration as caesareans on demand have not found many followers in the medical community.
Getting back to our strong couple who decided to live a great adventure on their own because they know what is best for their infant and they reject any external support, I can tell you that yes most natural childbirths are statistically due to go well. On the other hand, when things go bad, I would not want to be in their place. Are they really selecting what is best for their infant or more an cool experience that will prove them they are able to pull such a stunt?

My new website for community called www.babyyap.info is now born. it is at a rough level now but you can log in and create your profile and start sharing pictures and videos of pregnancy, babies, families

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