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And that's LIFE!
... the other side of the traffic and there were no cars. Instead, there were men walking with signs. They were
Dr. Morel is on the Board of Directors for the ILAC program. He is a radiologise who owns his own building that staffs 4 radiologists besides himself and the latest CT, MRI, nuclear medicine and ultrasound equipment. Each radiologist does his or her own exam and then reads and writes a note. It's pretty amazing how different the job descriptions are here. ...
River Rafting - Estilo Dominicano
Am Mittwoch, 11.11., geht's frühmorgens los in einem Kleinbus Richtung Landesinneres. Ziel ist Jarabacoa, eine kleine Stadt auf rund 500 M. ü. M. (In der Nähe der Stadt liegt auch der Pico Duarte, der höchste Gipfel in der Karibik.)
Dort ist das River Rafting auf dem längsten Fluss des Landes, dem "Yaque del Norte", angesagt. Der Preis für die Tour ab Hotel in Puerto ...
Wrapping Up the DR Swing
... our recent entries, however, I wanted to reflect a bit more on the Trautwein visit and the amazing work they are doing in the DR. We have followed their lives from afar ever since they uprooted their stereotypical lives in the suburbs of Chicago and replanted their family of six in the mountains of the DR. A curious thing to do for a couple with Dartmouth degrees and advanced business (Standford GSB) and medical (Columbia U) degrees. By most ...
Adventure Tour - Week 1
... at least one family member/friend stay with them 24/7 to feed, bathe, and care for them because there is not enough hospital staff to do so. People with cancer are put in beds next to people with leg injuries or diabetes - there's no method to it. It was really hard to leave Crossroads last Friday because my experience there was so amazing. Since then, I have been travelling around, just having fun and doing tourist-y things. ...
Airport Shenanigans and Santo Domingo
... Everyone awoke by about 9:30 to eat a sub-par breakfast in on the roof of the hotel, and then pack up. They called for a taxi, and went out to El Faro, an enormous light house that purportedly housed the remains of Christopher Columbus. The building was shaped like a cross, built with concrete and marble, and was deemed by the writers of Lonely Planet to be 'a bombastic eyesore.' It was certainly bombastic... We paid the entrance fee, and fended off an eager tour ...