Recent Blogs
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Family and Friends3 Weight Loss Surgery Myths, Debunked
Estimated read time: 3 minutesWeight loss surgery remains one of the safest and most effective treatment options for people struggling with weight and diabetes. But you wouldn’t know it if you spend a lot of time on social media.
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Health Care
Bariatric Surgery: Why I Do What I Do
Estimated read time: 5 minutesBariatric surgery is one of the few areas of medicine where people actively come to get well. Unlike appointments for the flu, acute gallbladder pain or a life-threatening diagnosis, seeing a medical...
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Public Health
Final Day: Grateful Hearts, Theirs and Ours
Estimated read time: 3 minutesFriday marked our last clinic day of the week. It seems impossible that a week has already gone by. Our team started the week as strangers and now we are like family.
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Public Health
Day 4: An ER on the Beach
Estimated read time: 4 minutesOn the fourth day of our mission trip to El Salvador, we set up our medical clinic at the Cooperativa de Pescadores Los Blancos, a fish market of sorts where vendors come to sell their goods. The...
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Public Health
Day 3: Teachers and Partners
Estimated read time: 3 minutesWe are seeing great partnerships evolve between our doctors, residents and medical student interpreters in El Salvador this week.
