Our Awesome Little Clinic in Bagram

This is our clinic.  Our prime contractor has been amazingly accommodating and has made us feel right at home here.  They have made sure that we have everything we need and have bent over backwards to get us set up in a great location with great equipment.  The carpentry shop here on the compound has been working over time to build everything we need to have a full-fledged clinic.  They have built cabinets with plexiglass doors for the exam room,  a reception desk and benches for the waiting room and even an exam bed--from a picture no less! I am quite proud of our little clinic and I can't wait to see the one that I will be working from in Kandahar.

There is only one down side to being on an airbase.  The F-15 Strike Eagles fly several missions a day, taking off only a few hundreds of meters away.  This of course halts all conversation in the clinic while we wait for our tables to stop shaking and our hearing to come back.  I once thought diesel engine and road noise in the back of an ambulance were the loudest sounds to interfere with taking a blood pressure.  However, an F-15 definitely trumps them.

Its a short commute to work every day.  

The 20' white building is where the medical staff lives.

Closer view of our clinic.

Our exam room / PA office.

The guys in the carpentry shop built our exam table from 

scratch with no plans and only a picture from the internet to go off of. 

They even upholstered it themselves.  

 Pretty  darn good job!

Our waiting room and reception area.  The benches are going to 

be upholstered soon.  They came and measured for cushions today.