12 Health Tips for Mexico Travel: What NOT to Eat and Drink
Only drink purified bottled water OR ask for un vaso de agua de garafon — a glass of water from the big blue purified water bottle Only brush your teeth with purified bottled water. Do not use tap water for drinking. Hand washing with soap is okay. Keep your mouth shut when taking a shower! […]
A Prayer for Guadalupe
Many women in Mexico are named Guadalupe in honor of the Virgin, Our Lady of Guadalupe, who many say was Aztec high-priestess Tonantzin and Earth Mother, adapted to the religious needs of New Spain. Our Guadalupe is a woman in her early forties with thick, luscious long black hair that hangs down to her waist. Most […]
Best Medical Care in Mexico City and Oaxaca
Where to get the best medical care in Mexico and in Oaxaca, has been foremost on my mind for the last month. Here are recommendations. We are still reeling from Suzie’s accident on February 20, when the guide/driver of the car she was riding in hit a concrete barricade on the way to Teotihuacan. The […]
Where, What and When: My Last Three Weeks in Mexico
I haven’t posted much in the last three weeks and I’m sorry. Some of you may be wondering about that. It began with our Looking for Diego Rivera Art History Tour in Mexico City three weeks ago. The day we were set to gather for our first dinner together to launch our program, Suzie and […]
Oaxaca Community Health Clinic is Learning Laboratory for U.S. Physician Assistant Students
When Meagan Parsons and Ben Cook arrived in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, three weeks ago to start their month-long public health clinic externship, they expected that people would be friendly and open since they had traveled before in Latin America. They didn’t know quite what to expect about Mexico’s health care system. What […]
Student Physician Assistants Volunteer in Oaxaca Village Public Health Clinic
Two students enrolled in the Physician Assistant program at Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina, will do a one-month volunteer clinical residency at the public health clinic in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, this summer. Meagan Parsons and Benjamin Cook, who will both graduate in December 2013, land in Oaxaca next week! Needless to say, they […]
Nursing Student Volunteers in Oaxaca Public Health Clinic: Health Care Externships
Aside from organizing arts workshops in Oaxaca, Mexico, I also work with universities to place students pursuing a health care degree in the Teotitlan del Valle public health clinic for student exchange externship experiences. I started doing this during the ten years I worked at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School […]
Oaxaca Healthcare: Free for the People
From personal experience I can tell you that tapping into the public health care system is low cost and easy if you are living or visiting in Oaxaca. This morning I presented myself at the Centro de Salud in Teotitlan del Valle with symptoms that I had pretty much determined via internet research were the […]
Multicultural Learning Experience for U.S. Nursing Student in Oaxaca
“I loved it!” Kathy Ray, a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spent two weeks volunteering in the rural public health clinic in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca. The learning experience was invaluable. She developed what will be, she is certain, lifelong professional relationships with local […]
Oaxaca Health Clinic Welcomes Carolina Nursing Students
The School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill encourages students to develop the knowledge and skills needed to provide quality care in global environments and to recent immigrants to the United States. Students can do this by taking a summer course and meet requirements by volunteering with a nongovernmental organization […]
UNC Chapel Hill Nursing Student to Volunteer in Oaxaca
For the fourth summer, I have helped place a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student from the School of Nursing who will volunteer in the Teotitlan del Valle public health clinic. Kathy Ray, a second degree BSN student, will spend almost three weeks in this indigenous Zapotec village, working alongside the clinic physician […]