Nike’s life in a peaceful district
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Nike learned both health and culture at Nachueak district for 2 weeks.1st day for learning health system.She received warm welcome from the director of Nachueak hospital and all the medical staffs.After that there was a warm feast in the riverside resturant.
A lot of activities for learning such as ward round in the early morning.Then work at OPD, ER, LR, OR, PCU and more in the hospital ,Visit patient at the community and learning risk factor of some disease in the ricefield and the village also learning culture and lifestyle that associate with some disease.
Exercise by ride a bycycle in the beautiful evening during the sun sets with clear and fresh air surrounding with the biggest lake in Isan for health promotion everyday.
At Nachueak hospital
Ward Round
At LR
At OR
At PCU
Visit Patient at the community
Visit Patient at the community
Learning at the beautiful rice field
Thai farmers are backbone of the country. Rice is not only the staple food of the country, but now it is one of our main export products. Therefore, farmers are the most important work force of the country.
Farmers work from dawn to dusk the whole year-round as after the annual rice harvest, they will again cultivate the second-rice crop or other cash crops, raising cattle and other animals such as fish, ducks etc. Usually fish lives by nature in the paddy fields. So, rice and fish will naturally grow up in the same place. At the end of the annual rice harvest, farmers will have both rice and fish to eat during the coming dry season. Thus, it has become a common greeting among Thai people when they meet, they will firstly ask each other “Where do you go?” then the following sentence is “Did you eat rice and fish ?”. In fact, rice and fish have been the main food of Thai people for a very long time.
Unfortunately, a lot of risk factors of tropical disease usually involve the life style of the farmers such as they like to eat unripe food that is the risk of parasitic infection and don’t wear boots during work in the rice field.It’s a risk of leptospirosis and melioidosis.
Back to ER
oh Delicious!!
Visit patient at the community again
Learned the process to produce Thai Silk
Silk is the natural filament produced by the salivary glands of silkworms which are a type of moth that feeds on the mulberry bush. Silkworms are caterpillars, not worms. They spin their cocoons using a complex set of mechanisms within their bodies when they change from larva into pupa. Thai silk is produced by Thai caterpillars raised on Thai mulberry leaves by Thai weavers in Thailand.
Raw silk is bumpy and irregular. The completed cocoon is pulled from the mulberry bush and placed in a vat of boiling water, which separates the silk thread of the cocoon from the caterpillar inside.
The silk from Thailand’s caterpillars varies in color from light gold to very light green. A cocoon is comprised of one thread that is 500-1,500 meters long. A single filament is too thin to use alone so many threads are combined to make a thicker, more practical fiber.
Our weavers wash these raw silk threads, bleach them, then soak them in vats of hot dyes. Afterwards, they wash the silk thread again, stretch it, and put it through a final dying process. When that is finished, they wind the threads onto spools or drums in preparation for weaving using
Learning at the ricefield and cornfield
At the temple.This is the place for practicing meditation.
The last day!!! Summary elective programme.
Both medical and cultural….
Experience Thailand’s Community Hospital System
And Esarn Culture!
GOODBYE…
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
When I heard from Dr. Sathaporn that I will be accepted for a medical elective at Nachueak Hospital,
I was very excited in two ways:
Looking very forward to get to know a community hospital and the people there, in a part of Thailand that the tourists usually never visit,
But I was also a “little” bit nervous:
Adventure! I did not know what to expect!
What I experienced here within two weeks exceeded all my expectations:
I have never ever learnt such a warm welcome and acceptance from all of you and
thanks to Dr. Sathaporn and the medical staff I
have gained more clinical experience in all kind of fields!
It was very exciting for me to see the management at a community hospital, to visit the patients in the communities, to be part of your hospital team
I appreciate it highly that I was introduced into your ‘Esarn’ culture and language,
and that you arranged so many visits and possibilities for me to get to know
The Esarn ‘Easy lifestyle’ including the
ahaan saep!
The experiences here in NaChueak-
I will always keep in my heart
I want to thank you so much for everything,
Dr. Piti for allowing me to come to his hospital and his delicious dinner invitations,
Dr. Doi for all his efforts to teach me in medicine and culture and ! exercise!, translating and guiding me around Nachueak and beyond, thank you for your wonderful website! Many compliments from my family and friends!
Dr. Mameow for allowing me to be her ‘housemate’ and watching her favourite thai
series with her,
Dr. Thaksinar for her wonderful Egypt calendar,
Dr. Po for arranging the delicious farewell lunch,
The teams of ER, IPD, OPD, PCU, LABOUR Room, ID, and all the medical staff for being so helpful and patient with my medical procedures, my medical English( I know I can not speak ‘Tenglish’!) for translating, and for being always very funny….!
Many thanks to the IT Team, who made me able to reconnect with the rest of the world!
Thank you all so much!
I hope I could give you a little back of the cordiality that you present me-
And I would be really very happy to welcome you one day in Germany ( but please not all at the same time!) and Miss Katie and Pi Pai:
I will find you a rich German husband!
I came as a ‘Falang’ and still: I will leave as a Falang, but as a ‘Falang puang’
Nike
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A lot of pictures I will give more information later
i cant see the pictures
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Let’s have fun and more experience next week NIKE!
*_*
:D:D huuui ;)
1) siiiaß, des buzzelle :D
2) :D nike beim reis-anbaua :P
3) wääääh madän :D
hajiia, vll liesch jia iwann mal den kommi hier :P
♥♥♥
NIKE ……If you go back..We still miss you
we glad you are happy here….
You are happy to travel .Hope that we would have found each other
Dr. Nike you are very nice. I hope you will come back to Nachuack hospital again. I will miss you always.
Katie:cheerful:
Hi Nike, how are you? i miss you so much. nice to know and talk to you. hope you can come to visit Khon Kaen again and see our play next year…. miss you so much.
hello everybody!
it was such a wonderful experience to stay with you in Nachueak/ thank you!
I miss you, too!
And Visky/ for sure if you invite me i will be there to watch your next play!
many greetings!
ศิษย์น้อง …
เรามาชมภาพแล้ว เห็นนางฟ้าผมทองด้วยล่ะ ดีจัง
เอาไว้ให้เราเคลียร์คิวได้ จะออกเดินสายไปเซอร์เวย์ที่นั่น
ศิษย์น้องต้องจัดตารางพาไปสำรวจพื้นที่ด้วยนะ
Thank you my dear friend for sharing this with us
Thank You for sharing My Talented Brother..Special Place..Would love to visit and volunteer sometime.Very beautiful caring staff..Krub,Krub,Krub…Always..Brian
What great pics & a very good job !
Congratulations to Nike.
Christophe (France).
Very cool to share with your friends! Very special we shared together! Blessings my sweet friend!
Thanks for sharing Doi, nice and beautiful pic there!!
Great Job..Blessings!!
Thank you Chat we had a doctor from Japan visited our hospital too ^ ^
มาร่วมชมด้วยนะคะ คิดว่า Nike คงประทับใจป็นอย่างมาก
ภาพให้นัยแห่งคุณค่าแห่งวัฒนธรรม และสังคมชนบทได้อย่างยอดเยี่ยมเลยนะคะ
สวยและดูแล้วสุขใจ
พี่อุ๊
ขอบคุณครับพี่อุ๊
Dr.Doi
Thank you very much about my book that you send to Whisky and he has a little word to me. I like to read poem write by Whisky. I think it is very funy.
คนดี.. พี่พุดค่ะ
ลำน้ำน่านเล่าว่าส่งหมอไปนาเชือกคนนึง
ใช่คนเดียวกันมังคะ
น่ารักมากค่ะ
ดีใจนะคะที่ได้ต้อนรับอาคันตุกะที่แสนมีค่าต่อโลก
และ…
เค้าได้รับความมีน้ำใจไมตรีของคนไทย
โดยเฉพาะที่นาเชือกกับวิถีไทยวัฒนธรรมไทยอันแสนงดงามค่ะ
พี่พุดรักนาเชือกเสียแล้วสิทั้งๆที่เห็นแต่ภาพ
และมีน้องดอยคนดีอยู่ที่นั่นอิอิ
ลำน้ำน่านไปรับรางวัลที่ฟิลิปปินส์ พี่พุดชื่นใจมากมายค่ะ
เค้าเล่าคร่าวๆให้ฟังเป็นประสบการณ์ในชีวิตที่ยอดเยี่ยมค่ะ
รักน้องมากมายเสมอไป
ใช่ครับ คนเดียวกัน
ส่งภาพดอกจานและวัวควายไปล่อ ลำน้ำน่านร่ะครับ
ตอนที่อยู่ฟิลิปปินส์ก็ได้คุยกันครับ กลับมาเมืองไทย สงสัยจะงานยุ่งเหมือนเดิม
ขอบคุณพี่พุดที่แวะมาเยี่ยมเยียนครับ
สวัสดีค่ะ..น้องดอย
พี่ตุ้ม..พึ่งได้แวะเข้ามาอ่านเมล์ เพราะช่วงธค.-มค. ที่ผ่านมา พี่วุ่นวายอยู่กับการสอบสวนโรค การติดเชื้อจากการผ่าตัดต้อกระจก เห็นภาพและการทำงานของทีม รพ.นาเชือกแล้ว ชื่นชมมากค่ะ…เสียดายที่พี่ไม่ได้ออกไปนิเทศงานที่มหาสารคาม จะได้แวะไปเยี่ยม พี่ไปที่ร้อยเอ็ดและกาฬสินธุ์ น้องดอย เป็น Key Man ที่สำคัญ ขอเป็นกำลังใจให้น้อง พัฒนางานต่อไปนะคะ เพื่อความสุขและสุขภาพที่ดีของประชาชนค่ะ
ว่างๆ จะแวะเข้ามาเยี่ยมใหม่นะคะ…
ขอบคุณที่แวะมาเยี่ยมครับพี่ตุ้ม :happy: :happy: :happy: