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O'Rese Knight uses a Tono Pen to test a patient for glaucoma at the clinic in Marmont. The Tono Pen was a proper substitute for other equipment because it is powered by batteries. Knight is a fourth year medical student doing research at the Bascom...
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By Jennifer Browning
Marmont, HAITI--Twenty-seven-year-old Else Jean arrived with at friend at the clinic with a severe infection in the left eye and the right eye was starting to show signs of infection as well. Else said that her eye began bothering her five days ago...
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By Jennifer Browning
Marmont, HAITI--A thin white film seems to coat two-year-old Kimberlee Pierre's eyes. She doesn't cry, she doesn't smile, she just stares into the space of the nothingness she experiences. Kimberlee was born this way and according to her mother she cannot...
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By Jennifer Browning
Thomonde, HAITI-Leaving the SUVs behind today the Bascom Palmer group left the Project Medishare office at 8 a.m. and took a short walk to the hospital. It was a good opportunity for the medical team to get a glimpse of the town...
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Ted Leng examines one last patient at the clinic in Casse. The group had to finish their eye exams in darkness because in the majority of Haiti's central plateau there is no electricity. Leng is a second year resident at the Bascom Palmer Eye...
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By Jennifer Browning
Casse, HAITI--Two-year-old Leo Yvenel was seen by Emory and Project Medishare's mobile clinic when they visited Casse three weeks ago. Leo was diagnosed with a retinoblastoma which is caused by a tumor which forms in the eye. His grandmother noticed the eye...
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Mike Feilmeier, a second year resident at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, conducts an eye exam at the clinic in Casse, Haiti. Each patient began with a basic eye exam before proceeding to be tested for glaucoma and other eye diseases. Each patient left...
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