Oh, this is great! I Used Where There Is No Doctor when I was doing fieldwork in northwestern Kenya. It was helpful because we were camped right next to a Turkana encampment and there must have been about a gazillion kids with pinkeye. I am going to download these now in anticipation of more fieldwork - thanks for this awesome post! posted by ChuraChura at 8:35 PM on July 26, 2011 [2 favorites]
Awesome! I hope it's helpful to you!
They're apparently now working on an updated version of WTIND, too. The Foundation keeps a blog, and perhaps it will be announced there when it's released. posted by zarq at 8:43 PM on July 26, 2011
Woooooo! Now I can skip the heimlich and go right to tracheotomies! posted by BrotherCaine at 9:04 PM on July 26, 2011
There were a lot of people that dissed the One Laptop Per Child project as absurd. "These people don't need computers! They need a sandwich!"
They need information. Knowing is half-way to doing. Ignorance is not bliss; it is oblivion. posted by SPrintF at 9:19 PM on July 26, 2011 [4 favorites]
Great post. I've worked in the last few years in some of the most remote parts of the 3rd world and frankly it can be a bit scary to know you're in a place where if something goes wrong, you can't see a doctor for 72 hours, minimum, if you're lucky. And, you're already lucky, because you're one of the few people who could actually afford the means to get out of there and find transport to somewhere where there is a doctor. Knowing that complications from a broken bone or relatively minor head injury could be lethal can be something that puts everything in a whole new perspective, so these types of resources are invaluable at providing help where there is none. That much more so for those who will never leave such places in their lives. posted by allkindsoftime at 12:22 AM on July 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by ChuraChura at 8:35 PM on July 26, 2011 [2 favorites]