JUN-C-19
ARRANGING AN ETHIOPIAN SENIOR ELECTIVE
FOR ELIZABETH YELLEN WITH ENVY SINCE I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE SAME
EXPERIENCE ALONG THE ORIGIN OF THE BLUE NILE!
I have made extensive plans for the coming months culminating with a return from my fourth venture of this year into the Himalayas to return out of Namche Bazar Nepal to New Orleans to give a presentation Oct. 10 on Medical Missions in New Orleans at the ACS again, and with plans to go out on another MMI to Mindanao Philippines and get there by way of Malawi in January 2002. See Jan-C-10
In that regard to coming into Africa again with medical students, I wanted to help plan the senior elective for one of my prize medical student senior advisees, Elizabeth Yellen. You had changed Carolyn Peck's life through our exchange of her senior elective period in Niger for a life of service quite different from most of the aspiring phsycians I had seen recently at graduation.
Elizabeth was with me in Ladakh last summer and we have been jealously guarding her senior year for an Ethiopia elective. She had spent a good part of her life already in the Ethiopian area with her father John Yellen and mother Alison Brooks, both renowned anthropologists. The latter was my thesis advisor for my anthropology degree.
We would appreciate advice for her senior elective period.
Thanks!
GWG
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June 28, 2001
Dear Glenn:
Spectacular
and amazing! Congratulations on such amazing achievements and spectacular
locations outside of the pearly gates. I
am hoping to be at the ACS meeting in New Orleans in Dr. John Wood's Medical
Mission Program. I'm looking forward to seeing you again after your summer.
I
hope to be in Wolaitta Soddo by the beginning of the third week of January 2002.
I think that I would be able to supervise your medical student if you don't
plan to stay with her yourself. We would be working out of the former SIM
mission hospital which is now a government hospital and directed by Dr. Kelemu
Desta. He had a full general surgical residency in Addis Ababa followed
by at least one more additional year with a fine Norwegian missionary
surgeon. He also has four years of plastic surgery training in Wales.
He is presently the president of the Wolaitta word of Life Church of 828
churches with 132 missionary evangelists.
Our
daughter Carolyn Joy is two days drive away in Tikemt Ishet near the Sudan
border in the south of Ethiopia. Would she have time to spend two weeks at
this location as well to see 40 to 80 patients a day taken care of by bush clinic
nurses for an area of about 120,000 population?
I
suspect that she will be especial sensitive to cultural issues with famous anthropologist
parents. She may wish to look at the web site for the new hospital and
mossy foot project. www.mossyfootproject.com
The
Wolaitta church will hold its yearly one week conference starting the end of
January and the beginning of February. The pastor of our church in Wheaton and
some of the elders will be there for about 10 days. We
expect to be hearing if our first million for the new Wolaitta Word of Life
Hospital called Siloam General Hospital is coming in on June 30th. This is
the day set for the signing of the transaction. A
medical student from Albert Einstein Medical School in New York is spending
the
summer at Wolaitta Soddo.
Another
one of your medical students that you sent to us at Galmi is taking residency
at Emery in Atlanta. When we gave SGR at Moorehouse, she came up to give
her greetings. The
two contact E-mail addresses are being sent a copy of this communication.
Your
friend,
Harold
Harold P. Adolph, MD. FACS
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Wonderful news!
Let me know if you can respond to him directly, since I will be seeing him at the ACS program in New Orleans October 10 in which we will both be participating with a very seasoned international mission surgeon as our panel chairman ( and a fellow co-resident of mine at Peter Bent Brigham) John Woods. It would be even better if you might be able to work directly with Dr. Adolph (and--maybe--me?) as Carolyn Peck had in Galmi Niger--a truly life-changing experience for her.
I hope for the very best senior elective experience possible for you and this may be very close to the "It Don't Get No Better Than This!" epiphany!
It was good to see you at Holy Cross Grand Rounds when I had presented there last week. I have just met with two other students---Agrawal (leaving for Nepal on Friday--another example of someone who will be returning to the "ROOTS", planned from the day we had first discussed it in her freshman year!) and Soriano (who was at the African Goiter Rounds)--each of whom struggled to get away from Jules Cahan and Holy Cross just long enough to have me fill out their senior elective forms!
Cheers!
GWG