If all goes well I'll make a trip around the world in the next three weeks. I leave today for Thailand. Next week I'll be working with Changing Children's Lives, a foundation headed by Dr. Mark Weinstein of New Haven CT. I'll be a member of a large team, thirty people or so. We meet at JFK in New York, then go to Hong Kong via Vancouver BC. After an hour in Hong Kong we continue to Bangkok.
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| Udon Thani is at A. It's the capital of Udon Thani District. |
We'll work for a week at a military hospital in Udon Thani, Thailand. It will be busy, with four operating tables and ninety patients scheduled. I'm taking a little vacation afterwards, four days in Myanmar. Myanmar only recently opened up to tourists so it should be interesting. On Feb 1 I fly from Bangkok to Tel Aviv. I'll put in a week of peds neurosurgery in Nablus with Samer Elbabaa (St. Louis), Amal Jubran (San Diego) and Teresa Bubb (Portland). After a week of neurosurgery I fly back to Minneapolis via Frankfurt and Chicago. I'm giving lectures in Udon Thani and Nablus (not my favorite thing to do!) and I'll let you know how that turns out. It will be great to see the crew from Nablus again and I look forward to working with Traci Shogren-Knaak of Ames and Rich Raker from New York while I'm in Thailand.
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| Not exactly around the world, as the closest I come to the equator is Bangkok (13.45' north). |
