Caitlin Stiglmeier is a pediatrician who spent the month of March 2015 working in rural India. Her occasional FaceBook pieces are captivating. Here is a recent one, dated May 11.
"It’s difficult to comprehend, still, the full scope and magnitude of my time in India. I felt I was merely being led to communities, families, individuals for a reason, through no control of my own. I lived much 'freer' in India, relinquishing all control over a situation yet still attempting to intervene medically when I was able.
This family was the first of many I saw in a migrant community in Segwa, and their expressions say it all. Mom was very skeptical, wary of the white person who appeared out of nowhere and asked so many questions. Dad was elated, stating I was a 'god in the flesh', physically here to help rather than an inanimate object in a temple. The children either greeted me with smiles and laughter or tears and tentative glances.
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