More medical

At one of our recent, regular weekly Emergency Response Team training meetings, we had great fun learning to use a Gamow bag: a bag you can seal and pressurize to help people who have altitude sickness simulate a lower altitude as a temporary treatment. One of our team members was eager to get inside and try it out.

Then, toward the end of our session, while we were sticking each other with needles to practice drawing blood, someone who had sustained an actual injury on the job came into Medical and we all got to help set up and practice using the x-ray machine.

So fascinating, and this continues to be an unexpectedly great part of my South Pole experience this year!