Today was the first day of interviews and I got to do 3! Maria (the assistant for VivaKids) went over the questions with me this morning and warned me that a few of them could be tricky, but after explaining them to her more in detail, she understood. This afternoon, she took me around to several people who are members of the church where short-term medical missions usually hold their clinics, or as they call them here "operativos médicos." We did run into a few snags with some of the questions, but because Maria and I had talked about the questions before hand, she was able to help me rephrase them in a more understandable way.
All three of these participants use a local primary care clinic as their main source of healthcare, so I asked Maria some questions about it. It is run by a doctor who got into politics and used his influence to establish the clinic. It started as mostly general medicine doctors, but has now expanded to have a cardiologist and a gynecologist as well as some respiratory therapy. I may wind up talking to some of the doctors there about how they perceive the STMMs, as Maria hinted at the fact that some doctors get jealous because everyone wants to go see the Americans.
I have typed up the interviews from today and will probably listen to them tomorrow morning, typing up some soundbites. Then in the afternoon Maria and I will head out again!
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