Emeline in Hyderabad, day 3

Today we went to a five hundred year old fort. It had 700 steps. I climbed them all. I was exhausted and had 2 diet cokes and had water because I was hot and tired. Julia and I took over 100 pictures. The fort was so tall. It was about 500 feet high. The steps [...]

Brief trip to Apollo Hospital

Through Najeeb’s friend Dr. Pramod I was able to spend some time at Apollo Hospital the day we left Chennai. I gave a talk on the history of IM residency training in the US to a group of students and residents (and answered their questions about getting into residencies), and then had a tour. Apollo [...]

Emeline in Chennai day 3

In the morning today Julia and I went shopping. We also went to a smoothie shop and both got delicious smoothies. I also tried two new fruits I have never heard of before. One was small and round, and you peel away the green peal and pop it in your mouth. I t was very [...]

Dakshinchitra

I have had little time to write. I am wring this with my laptop on my …lap……as we wind our way though traffic, just coming back from a terrific day in Coimbatore. We do spend much time fighting traffic trying to get from a to b. Our trip to Coimbatore involved around 5 hours of [...]

Emeline in Chennai day 1

Chennai, the city that we are in, is very busy and loud. There are no traffic rules, so driving is insane. All the cars beep and zoom in and out of traffic. Motorcycles, bicycles, cows, goats, and bulls clutter the streets. Everybody drives very fast. In the afternoon we went to an ancient Hindu temple [...]

Julia in Chennai, day 1

We are in India now. We went to a temple today and we are going shopping Tuesday. Our hotel is very nice. We went out to dinner today. I ate some Indian food. Tomorrow we are taking a plane to Combitore.