Friday afternoon

Still getting a feel for the city. I took another long walk around this afternoon. I found the Witch's Market where they sell dried llama fetuses and other strange things. I didn't take pictures since there were people involved, and I'm not up to asking for permission yet. Being a tourist/foreigner is weird sometimes. But I did take a couple videos. I was trying to capture the public transportation -which is a bunch of white-ish buses that go all over the place for about 1.50 BS (so about $0.19 USD) and shout out their stops and rates as they pass by. I'll try to upload and share the other videos later.



On the clinical side: I got to examine kids in the clinic of Hospital del Niño this morning. I held open the mouth of a 4 day-old baby with a cleft lip to see if it was also a cleft palate (it was), and I successfully made another child cry trying to see the back of her throat. Unfortunately, I don't think it was the first time I've ever made a child cry... so I wasn't that uncomfortable with it. Is that a bad thing? So far, pediatrics looks as appealing as ever. The picture below is taken in Dr. Velasco's office/clinic room. From left to right: Erin, Zarah, Dra. Paola, me, Dr. Velasco.