05-AUG-C-4

 

JONATHON HANNOWELL’S RESPONSE TO MY NOTE TO HIM DESCRIBING SOME OF THE EXPERIENCES

 OF THE ERITREAN MISSION AND HIS REFLECTIONS

 ON WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A DOCTOR IN THE SETTINGS

 OF THIRD WORLD MEDICINE AS IN KAFKA

 

 

 

From:      Jonathan Hanowell <jhanowel@gwu.edu>

To:        Glenn Geelhoed <msdgwg@gwumc.edu>

Date:      8/25/2005 4:04:35 PM

Subject:   Re: Kayaking and tubing with WMS next weekend

 

"Tahum!"  Your travel log is almost too rich. Just when i think

stationary school days will last forever, i get your email and

discover that there still is a world outside the wards.

 

i will be by GW tomorrow after my shelf exam, and i'll swing by your

office in the early afternoon. if i don't catch you, good luck this

sat in Annapolis.

 

i recently read Kafka's "Country Doctor". it spoke about not being

able to treat a pt until one is stripped of clothes (whitecoats, PDAs,

and pocket guides) and placed in bed with the pt(subjectivly viewing

the infected wound as if it was one's own). i really equated this to

your work abroad so much more so than how we are taught on the wards.

 

john