After taking last year off from my medical mission trips, I'm back! This time...Panama!
April 26-May 3 I will be in western Panama in Ngabe-Bugléto provide physical therapy services as part of an interprofessional medical team from Samuel Merritt University. I am so excited that we were able to coordinate dates across the University to allow FNP, PA, DPT, and nursing faculty and students to provide much needed medical services in under served rural areas in Panama. Best part (aside from the fact that I've never been to Panama or even Central American) is that we have 1 DPT student and 2 DPT alumni from SMU also coming along!
As always, if you have cash burning a hole in your pocket and you would like to be a part of my trip through financial support, you can donate to offset my costs (or as a birthday gift!) by visiting my donation site: http://gogetfunding.com/project/medical-volunteer-trips-to-panama-2013. $5 minimum, all donations handle securely via PayPal. Any amount is very much appreciated.
I am probably going to return to Panama on our August medical trip (dates still not firmed up), again with some DPT students and alums and again as part of an interprofessional group from SMU. I'll keep you posted on that.
I've already had the joy of my visit to the travel doctor. Had to find a new one this year, the guy I usually see had retired. But the new place is great, and now I'm all boostered up on my typhoid vaccine and have my prescriptions filled for anti-malarial meds and antibiotics. And because I only needed a week at a time for these trips, insurance was not an issue like I had the last time I went to Haiti.
I'm really starting to get excited about this trip. Especially since our first and our last day in Panama will be at a beach resort near Panama City. I think that's a great way to both start and end a busy 5 days of medical clinics from dawn to dusk, don't you?
