Thursday – Day 4
Haha, this is a candid shot w/ my dear friend and pharmacy student Chris.
My job at the clinic entails banding the patients outside in line with purple and gray hospital bands. The rest of my day, I am running between stations at the clinic ensuring that all of my team is satisfied and guarding traffic flow at the main gate.
This is unfortunate because I rarely get to see the end product of our clinic: satisfied and happy patients who have just received medical and spiritual care.
However, today we were banding people and a man arrived at the back of the line. He insisted that he did not want to see a doctor (purple band) and only wanted eye glasses (gray band). So, we gave him a gray band and let him go ahead in the clinic in front of all the people because all he needed were glasses whereas they all needed to see a doctor.
Only about fifteen minutes later, he came out in his greased up coveralls smiling from ear to ear and telling us, “Gracias” for the glasses. Then he crossed the street, caught a bus, and headed off to work.
It got me REALLY excited to be able to immediately see how we had helped this man. Normally, people wait in line and don’t leave the clinic until several hours later. This man, however, was able to receive the care he needed in only about 15 minutes and was still able to go to work today.
Gloria Dios!
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