Author name: Gospel to Haiti

    Merry Christmas!!!   Merry Christmas! We had a beautiful day for a party today. We threw our cultural qualms aside, and invited all of our clinic staff over for a Haitian/American meal. It was sunny and funny. We tried to sing a couple Christmas songs, and ended up relying quite a bit on […]

Last Saturday I had the opportunity to try out my recently purchased, old, large, Yamaha dirt bike on a “quick” run out the trail to Ti Goave. We had some lab results that needed picked up as well as a stool sample that needed taken in for testing for one of our patients. Before putting

-that’s what they say a picture is worth.  So I figure that by the time you’ve viewed all the pictures that I’m including in this post, you’ll have heard something like three thousand-five hundred words about our day.  Plus the minimal amount I intend to type in addition to that. Our consultation rooms stay full,

    There are certain things that break your heart. One is Kinsley. Partly because he’s angelicaly cute, and partly because he’s sick, but mostly because his mommy just walked off on him. Then, when Kinsley yells my name from beside the road, and runs into my arms like a little fuzz ball, nothing but

There were three paracenteses done at the clinic today. THREE. The first one was on Wilfred, the young man that Whit mentioned in her last blog who had had one last Friday as well.  Dr. Felix was here again, and he had explained to Whit and I last week how to do a paracentesis, and apparently

  Ok.  I’m just trying to write a simple blog post.   Not a big deal, right?  But getting it started has felt like trying to start an engine on an empty tank.  Despite a little fooling sputter (or perhaps a sputtering fool, as I’m beginning to wonder about in my case), it simply doesn’t

It’s a little easier to write a blog post if you have a definite subject in mind to write about.  I don’t really have one.  I just told Marcille this afternoon that I would take her turn for blogging today if she takes my turn for Friday since I’m planning to go out with Donny’s

Hi everybody! I am Hans Hertzler and I’m the newest member of the Gospel to Haiti clinic team. I believe I am here to fill the role of clinic director/ patient transport guy and all around help-out-where-needed person. My primary medical background is working as an EMT for a busy ambulance service in Oklahoma for

     Yesterday someone asked me what my dream day would be like. It seemed so funny. So out of context. It had been a busy Sunday, as usual, I might say. This person needing that medicine, that person wanting a few minutes to talk. Another person wanting something for a tooth ache. And then,

     Mirebalais…..here we come. Our good ole ambulance chugs up Goat mountain and then thru the countless switchbacks. Some of the patients are starting to feel nauseous and we hear the lids being ripped of the marmites. Soon we are rolling down the windows and Whit and I are fighting for a breathe of fresh air. One lady starts