Very interesting experience. I was very excited to have a chance to see doctors perform routine examinations on pregnant women. We even saw one doctor examine a women who wanted an abortion. One of the doctors even asked me if I wanted to try to perform the examination on the patient myself. I unfortunately declined as our group was leaving the examination room but I was struck by how different the concept of privacy is between the United States and places such as India. In particular, it was interesting that both the patients and doctors carried on as usual with their clinical visit in a maternity ward in the presence of our group, especially since we had one boy with us.
As I expected given the similar colonial history of Hong Kong and India, the medical school education system here is similar to that in Hong Kong, with students going into medical school to get their MBBS degree straight after high school. This has made me think more deeply about the effect of globalization and colonization in the world.
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