Emergency Medicine residency training, an MPH from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and years of practicing medicine in Africa prior to the fall of 2014 prepared long-time Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) member Dr. Craig Spencer, to be part of the international emergency response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014. While we watched the epidemic…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 8 of There Are Signs Everywhere Safe and sound at JFK after three weeks on this awesome epic zen adventure. Thanks to my friends and colleagues, the WMS and Peak Promotions for making it work, helping clear the schedule, setting me up…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 7 of There Are Signs Everywhere “And then there were ten” (almost nine) Everything turned out all right in the end. But it had been an eventful 24 hours or so. Our down trekking days proved to be, in ways,…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 6 of There Are Signs Everywhere. Exactly one year ago: The Night Before We spent the night before Everest Base Camp (EBC) arrival at Gorakshep where we did some solar charging and sunset watching. Climax Day The Kalapatthar group arrived at…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 5 of There Are Signs Everywhere It was Easter Sunday the day we left for Pheriche. The sunrise from Tengboche left me speechless: Half the group spent some early morning hours at the Monestary. The other half had our own…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 4 of There Are Signs Everywhere It was a full day of a beautiful acclimatization hike to Kumjung then on to Kunde and back to Namche to sleep at a lower elevation. Ama Dablam, the Nepalese Matterhorn meaning “Mother’s Necklace”, and…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 2 of There Are Signs Everywhere The trek along the Khumbu is beautiful and loaded with quaint tea houses and lodges. We covered acclimatization yesterday in the airport while waiting for a safe time to fly in to Lukla. Only about…
A little over a year ago, a last-minute invitation landed in my inbox to lead a Wilderness Medicine Course. It was a CME (Continuing Medical Education) while trekking to Everest Basecamp. The original trip leader was sick and wouldn’t be able to make the trek. For about a week the invitation sat in my inbox, until…
It’s been another one of those “Right place, right time” moments. I’ve been involved with the Wilderness Medical Society since 2008, serving on the education committee, directing the Student Elective in Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, now serving on the Board of Directors, but this is the first year I’ve been able to attend their winter conference…
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