October 2018

Tomorrow morning, Elita will be dressed in my clothes when she takes the body of her dead baby back to Puerto Alegre. Claudia, one of… Read More »Dressed in my clothes

Two of our patients with HIV died in the past week.  “Iquitos is the cradle of HIV in Peru”, one of the doctors told me.… Read More »HIV + snake bites + reflections on aging

Yesterday, I walked down all those stairs to the dock with a dying patient and his family.  I carried the patient’s bag of overnight things;… Read More »Privacy + worms

So I was expecting exotic diseases, and looking forward to living, for a little while, in a different culture, but I was not prepared for… Read More »violencia familiar