Day 7, A day at the Poipet CAMA Clinic

Rick and I (Greg) are currently at the CAMA office in Poipet. Dr. Kent sees patients here every Wednesday.




Teresa is at the Copeland home helping prepare for the Thanksgiving meal tomorrow. We understand that 22 are expected for dinner. (note from K: I think this is a picture of the Thanksgiving entree, at the Copeland home, not to be confused with anything happening at the CAMA clinic.)

Rick and I have been here all morning working on our specialties. Rick is setting up lab equipment and I'm working on procedures for the I-131 therapy program.

Rick was even pressed into duty helping Kent. A patient needed a blood draw so Rick jumped right in. He even made the stick in 1 try! (another note from K: Gregg, don't believe Rick if he tells you that he can do brain surgery... he always wanted to be a brain surgeon, but has no actual training in brain surgery.)

Another patient needed an x-ray. One of the CAMA workers, Matay, came up to perform that. I must say that Kent gives very personalized service to the patients. He made sure to take plenty of time to ensure the patient understood the information learned from the x-ray.

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On Monday, Kent and I visited the Thai Office of Atoms For Peace or OAP and met with the Secretary General of OAP. We also toured some of the OAP facilities and the I-131 therapy department of a large Bangkok hospital. The meetings were very good and we anticipate Thai approval for our program to be obtained.

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Yesterday, all 10 of us (the Copeland clan included) and our luggage, shoehorned our way into a 10 passenger van for the trip here from Bangkok. Along the way, we stopped for lunch and had the most wonderful roasted chicken. Tonight, Teresa will be doing English training with some of the church youth. We met some of them yesterday evening and they are really looking forward to it.

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More to come....