A first-person vlog-style transcript of a medical clinic day in Kenya (Day 2) led by Nate Buchanan and team. Scenes include arrival at a rustic clinic, Kara performing optometry (distributing glasses), Nate staffing pharmacy, triage procedures limiting who can be seen (blood pressure cutoff at 25 years), and large patient volume (over 200 patients by midday) with many left waiting due to time and equipment limits. Casual interpersonal moments (children meeting visitors, team banter) are interspersed.
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You, Kara. Last one in the van.
Just arrived at the clinic. Today's clinic is a little more rustic. This wooden.
Thing, house thing. You're looking like a doctor today. I know.
Today I get the very special job of being the optometrist, which means I get to have two pairs of glasses per patient and say, are these better? Are these better? I'm really excited to get to witness some people getting to see and read for the first time.
It's gonna be so Trev, Clinic is going up.
We're about to start our second day of clinics. I'm in the pharmacy today. Mama is doctor, nurse, seeing patient, nurse, nurse, doctor. And Kara giving out the glasses should be a fun.
We're gonna see if he can definitely this purse in different pairs of glasses and you can tell me which one looks.
First. Patient.
Can you see better?
Good.
They look very good.
Yeah.
Is that better?
Okay. She's getting used to white people.
This little girl is scared of us because it's her first time to ever see a white person.
This does it.
Very well. Yes.
Thank you very much.
Hey, I'm playing our glasses.
I'm having so much fun. It's my favorite job I've ever had.
Just make a friend.
I think she's sick.
Yeah, she's hot. It's about 12 o'. Clock. We've already seen over 200 patients today, and this line of people behind me are all people waiting to get into the clinic. We were worried when we first showed up that this was going to be a slow day, but that definitely is not going to be a problem.
What are you doing now?
I'm triaging people who are 25 years old or less because we have to take their blood pressure if they're older than 25 years old. And we have no more blood pressure machines, and the line's really long and we're not going to be able to see them.
Did you make up the word triaging? Yes. Everybody that comes through the clinic gets these little white cards and we have to leave by three. So we're not able to see everybody because we have to get back to the hotel before it gets dark. So all the people that you see waiting in the second line.
Are not getting to come to the clinic today. It's really heartbreaking.
I'm in a baby sleep.
Mitchell, while you're pumping up the ball, will you tell me how you introduced yourself to the kids yesterday?
Well, I went in front of all the kids, and Alex let me introduce myself.
She's like.
I was like, my name is Mitchell. And so the kids repeated everyone's name, and so they said, uh, Mitchell. So the whole day yesterday, I was known as, um, Mitchell the whole time. Just because I said, um before my name.
One of my favorite stories from yesterday.
Those don't even look real.
I don't think that they're reading. I think they're far away.
How thick are they?
I don't know.
Can't even see your eyeballs through the camera.
Say hello to the camera. Hello to the camera. This is Bennett. Get it?
