Traditional

One day this week we went with a Traditional Mongolian Doctor on his home visits to elderly patients. The hospitals and doctors do not keep records of their patients.  Each patient has a little book 5 1/2" x 8" and the doctor writes out a very short explanation of the visit, diagnosis, and prescribed treatment.  The patient is then responsible to keep their own book for future doctor visits.  Diagnosis and prescribed treatments are very interesting.  They take a portable electrocardiogram, labortory, and ultrasound and do all that right at home: blood, urine, pictures, etc.  Some practices are really good and some are questionable. We visited one lady that was 103, wow!  That's unusual for Mongolia.

It is warm enough now that a light jacket will do most days and things are starting to show a little green.