Contents tagged with Lesca Hadley

• The biggest and brightest family medicine gathering in Texas

  Tags: annual session and primary care summit, annual session, aspcs, aspcs report, emily briggs, linda siy, mary nguyen, larry kravitz, harold fields, adela valdez, lane aiena, cristian fernandez falcon, lesca hadley, tafp foundation, lindsay botsford, terrance hines, ike okwuwa

  Tuesday, November 15, 2022 11:55:00 AM

  The biggest and brightest family medicine gathering in Texas

  Report from TAFP’s 2022 Annual Session and Primary Care Summit

  Words by Samantha White Photos by Samantha White and Jonathan Nelson … more

• A welcome reminder a long way from home

  Tags: Lesca Hadley, long way from home, Guatemala

  Tuesday, March 17, 2020 1:59:00 PM

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  By Lesca Hadley, MD

  On the second day of a spring break medical trip in the mountains of Guatemala, an 87-year-old patient led carefully by her great grandson’s wife entered the schoolroom where I was seeing patients with a UNTHSC medical student, a nursing student, and our Spanish translator. She couldn’t have had another wrinkle on her wizened face. She lived alone on the edge of her village near fields of corn. Everyday she walked her route, selling milk she got from her neighbor to the families in town.

  She had delivered milk the previous day, but on this day, she was too weak to stand without help. She had a temperature of 99.5, and she felt hot. Her productive cough was audible. She trembled as our small interprofessional team began to examine her, gently raising her clothing. This was her first time to see a doctor.

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