My name is Andrew Glick and I am a junior in the
Combined Program in Medicine (BS/MD) with an individual major called
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Healthcare.
My career goal is to practice medicine and be involved in making,
shaping, or carrying out healthcare reform policy that our nation will be going
through.
In a week I will start my internship at the Red Cross
War Memorial Children’s Hospital (RCWMCH), which is conveniently right across
the street from our house. I will be
working with Dr. Heinz Rode, a pediatric burn surgeon and former head of surgery
at RCWMCH, and will be doing hands on clinical and research work.
My first impression of Cape Town was jaw
dropping. As I walked outside the
airport, the first thing I saw was beautiful Table Mountain on a clear sunny
day. Over the first few days we took our
beautiful sight seeing tour to Cape of Good Hope, Boulder’s Beach, and Signal
Hill. This starkly contrasted the rich
history and effects of apartheid that we saw in District Six and the townships. It was amazing to believe that only a few
decades ago the people that we’ve met were displaced from their homes in District
Six, solely due to the color of their skin, and then were forced to live in the
townships, many of which look like the shantytowns we only see on tv. What surprised me was the township people’s happiness
and eagerness to meet us
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| Lindsay, Jerard, Erica, Andrew, & Liz enjoying lunch at Charly's |
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