It is only 5pm, but this has been the longest day on record. There is surely some role for heat in relativity, as time goes really slowly here. Anyway, I got a tour of the hospital, met my supervisor and got my translator. The hopital is pretty intense. First off, it's huge, and depending on where you draw your lines, it's a roughly 2000 bed facility, with about 4500 outpatients a day. Compare this to the MUHC superhospital's 800-900 beds and you see how massive this is. It's a total campus, and nothing less. The story behind the hospital is pretty interesting. Ida Scudder was visiting her missionary parents in India at the age of 18. One night, 3 men came to her seperately begging her to help their wives who were dying in childbirth. She
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