Day shift on the Africa Mercy looks very different than most hospitals. Ok, we're on a big white ship in Lome, Togo currently, and that continually changes, but one of my favorites is that at the end of day shift, we take the patients to the 7th deck, portside, to allow them to see the daylight (hospital is below the water line on deck 3), make phone calls, see what the world looks like from high up on a ship, see the port and city, and spend time singing and visiting together.
This is where the babies get passed around and I personally marvel at the surgeries that have been performed on other wards not my own. There's always a load of cute babies, either patients or the younger siblings who are not yet weaned from their mothers... and the nurses then make complete fools of themselves, kissing them, oohing and aaahing over their fat little cheeks. It's a lovely time.
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