Showing posts with label costa rica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label costa rica. Show all posts

Thursday, June 21, 2018

The Unfortunate Case of the Costa Rican Colles’ Fracture: An Up-Close case study of Costa Rica’s Emergency Department

Image Credit: Pixabay
Author: Kayla King
Originally published: Common Sense May/June 2018

Picture this: you’re on a study abroad in beautiful, picturesque Costa Rica, in between your first and second year of medical school, learning about their health care system and practicing medical Spanish. You’re traveling to volcanoes, beaches, national parks, and national sloth reserves, taking pictures for every social media account possible, with six classmates. Seems glorious, right? Now, imagine that you’re doing all this, except you have a bright blue cast on your dominant wrist.

… What?