Today we visited the Hospital Santa
Casa hosted by Dr. Patricia Fucs and Dr.
Miguel Akkari. The hospital is historic,
and has a completely different style of architecture from the other two we have
visited this week. We joined their morning case conference which was very well
organized and presented. The morning
clinic patients we saw had impressive pathology, and the staff have taken great
care to try to maintain follow-up with their patients in order to track the
true long term outcomes. We saw two DDH
patients aged 23 and 30 that had been treated by them as young children. It
certainly helps give perspective as our profession tries to be more attentive
to these results. We had a very
traditional Brazilian lunch of feijoada - rice and beans and pork. Delicious, but it made some very sleepy for
our talks and more case discussions in the afternoon. Tonight is sure to be a highlight of this
segment as we head out for an important football match for one of the local
clubs, Corinthians. Watch out for
details soon.
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| Dr. Janicki enjoys a morning coffee |
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Beautiful historic architecture of Santa Casa contrasts with new modern hospital |
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Santa Casa Hospital |
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| Our gracious hosts from Santa Casa |
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| 23 year follow up on bilateral DDH presented at 6yo |
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| Can you tell these are 'orthopaedic' shoes? (note 2cm lift on left) |
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| lunch of feijoada |
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