Return to Kenya After 37 Years: Cultural and Medical Observations

摘要

In 1975, I spent my last three months of medical school working at a mission hospital in Kenya. It was a wonderful experience and I had always planned to go back but life got in the way. Finally, time and finances worked out so I could take part in the Brown Kenya Program in January 2012. The interval gave me the opportunity to see what had changed and what had remained the same. The first thing that struck me was that despite a more than doubling of the population and an AIDS epidemic, modern- ization marched on. As an example, whereas in 1975, 90 per- cent of the roads were unpaved and the roofs were thatched, those ratios were reversed when I retur ned. And of course everyone has a cell phone.