Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Outpatients on the Mekong


medic3, originally uploaded by mutikonka1.

More medicine - this time in the Tibetan/Naxi village of Cizhong on the upper Mekong, near Deqin. These patients have been treated at the clinic you can see above. The man is undergoing acupuncture for a painful osteoarthritis of the knee. Looks painful to me. The hospital waiting room and outpatients doubles as the basketball court. There's multidisciplinary teamwork for you.

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