Doctor Estaban

Tonight we shared a worship service with Manantiel De Vita Church. Pastor Guido is a wonderful pastor and he has a very lively, earnest congregation. It will be wonderful to work with the people in the church throughout the week once the clinic starts.

The team is ready to go. We are acclimated, rested, beginning to get comfortable around each other, and definitely ready to start seeing patients. It is interesting to me how the medical concept of "back to baseline," often describes issues non-medical. In medicine we might assure a patient that they are back to baseline after a typically brief period when they vary from their norm. Typically, a baseline condition is restored simply because that is what our physiology wants to do, rather than any of our wonderful therapies. This concept applies to the "personality type of medical teams." If this team were to have even one more half day of "getting ready," this would not be helpful. The baseline of this team is to roll up our sleeves and see patients. There is an increasing focus, an excitement, even a need, to start seeing patients.
Another way of expressing this is my Golden Retriever, Payton. He will never be a guard dog! No matter how hard I try, he will never do anything to a burgler but welcome him into my home with his tail wagging wildly. That is his baseline.

This team will never be tourists. They will never be dreamers, talkers, observers, or spectators. They need to be put to work. that is our baseline. That is what we will most enjoy -- especially doing this for these wonderful people. Tomorrow we start!
What a great group of people with whom to work!

Steve S.