A Day of Clinic

Ok, so in thinking back to all the clinic days over there. I just wanted to give an idea of what we saw, experienced.
We'd get up and leave where we were staying at 6:30am usually. As soon as we got to the orphanage, the Toul Serey orphan home, there'd be a mass of people waiting for the clinic to start. Foursquare did such an amazing job in setting this up and organizing. Their awesome organization is the ONLY way we were able to see as many people as we did.
Each of us had a table. On it we had pediatric and adult bp cuffs, otoscope, thermometers, some would supplies, etc. I had a book on there called Where there is no doctor, which we all used as a reference. Awesome!! I recommend it to anyone doing missionary work.
The Foursquare staff ran the registration, so as people needed to be seen, they were given "tickets" (registration from with a number). Our clinic was set up on the bottom floor of the orphanage, (the sanctuary), and we had a room we used as a pharmacy, and another room (we'll call this our trauma room where sick of the sickest went to). Cambodians would come in 20 at a time and sit in chairs, where they would wait for an open station (one of us). We each were assigned an interpreter or two. We talk to them, get their complaint, do our complete assessment, diagnose and prescribe the necessary meds. No person left our clinic empty handed. If nothing was wrong (which was rarely the case) then they would get multivitamins.
Alot of what we saw: Typhoid Fever (scary especially in children!!) lot of skin infections, UTI's, malaria, dehydration, etc, and typical stuff you'd see here in clinics, URIs, ear infections. Alot of wounds and alot of malnutrition in children.
After we saw a pt, we'd give them their "ticket" back with the diagnosis and prescription on it and they would take it to our pharmacy. Anna, and another Foursquare staff ran the pharmacy and did an AMAZING job!!!!