Monday was back to the grind. We actually had to get up early again. Boarded our little bus and took off for our first hospital visit. Our time in Lima is spent touring local hospitals and seeing interesting cases. The health care system here is somewhat socialized. Basically, everyone has free health care, from the jungle people to the lawyers. However, you get what you pay for. If you don´t have any money to pay, you get the ministry hospitals (like free health clinics) with underpaid doctors, poor facilities, and very little treatments (for example, they might intubate your family member because they need it, but if you want something to treat their pneumonia they´ll write you a prescription and send you to the pharmacy to buy it). The next option is to get something like
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