60: OP#8/Malawi: day 10

Sunday: early rounds, everyone is doing okay.

Looking over the surgical log June though September, with some notable absences:

No cholecystectomies (removal of gall bladder), which must reflect the low fat diet of sustenance farmers.

And just one hysterectomy, more difficult to understand.  Hysterectomy is one of the most common procedures in the U.S., and though granted that many may have marginal indications, the severe anemia and pain that can accompany uterine tumors (fibroids) should show up in the surgical log.  I don't think it's diet or genetic, plenty of fibroids in my other trips, and by the end of the trip I will have performed 4 surgeries for fibroids.  Don't know.