Sitting eating our lunch at the top level of the hospital and a 4.4 eathquake hits. A bit startled for those who felt it. We pgo downstairs, start getting the room ready for our next patient, we notice the once crowded lobby is now nearly vacant. Do you blame the Haitians, they are all so afraid. Linnea has been here since feb and has slept thru all quakes. Operated on three patients today all soft tissue cases. The first case was a man who was found beaten, lifeless, apparantly potential murder, with maggots crawling in his head wound. No known family. I&D severl wounds and found mandible fracture. Patients pre and post op are in the hall way or on cots in one of two rooms. We are the primary care givers. The language barrier is difficult but we have translators, Berman, Albert, and Johne. Celeste scrubbed, Lynne circulated, and I rounded with Linnea. Changed some traumatic post quake wounds most the day but nonrelated wounds as well. One 13 yo girl born with hpv developed a wart on her stomach, they removed it grafted it, didn't take, now she suffers a wound fhe size of a watermellon both on hur Bui from graft and abdomen.
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