| 2010-06-06 (Sun) | Vietnamese patients ready to go to shore |
(amIMG_4169) Vietnamese patients getting ready to return to shore. Dr Chi, US Navy Captian (back row, left)
(amIMG_4170) Japanese Navy personnel touring the USNS Mercy
(amIMG_4171) Vietnamese patients going home
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(amIMG_4177) That is the USNS Mercy looking through the window
(amIMG_4180) Statue of Tran Hung Dao in bay of Quy Nhon
(amIMG_4186) Dog having a peaceful nap
(amIMG_4187) Bill (high Navy officer)
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(amIMG_4189) Old lady with glasses after seeing medical personnel
(amIMG_4190) Cham tower in Quy Nhon, Vietnam
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(amIMG_4192) Bill, Tuyet, Paul (second in command of USNS Mercy)
(amIMG_4193) View from Queen Restaurant in Quy Nhon
(amIMG_4198) Paul with new local friends he just met in restaurant in Quy Nhon
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| 2010-06-07 (Mon) | Back to work seeing Vietnamese patients on ship |
(amIMG_4201) Mon 835a
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(amIMG_4205) Tuyet jokes with two volunteers saying "Happy family". However, they are not the real mother and father.
(amIMG_4207) Saying goodbye to my friend Ly who was a patient on the hospital ship
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(amIMG_4211) The five volunteers on the right (I am in front) handle final discharge of patients.
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(amIMG_4219) Dental department entertains the Vietnamese children on the ship
(amIMG_4221) 6-year child has defective spinal cord. He cannot sit up.
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(amIMG_4223) Singapore military eye doctors examing patient before going into cataract surgery in the morning
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(amIMG_4230) Royal Australian Air Force eye doctor examines patient for cataract surgery
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(amIMG_4236) Men are volunteer doctors from the Singapore military. The woman is from the Royal Austrailian Air Force
(amIMG_4243) Volunteers from three countries (USA, Singapore, Australia) posing for TV cameras.
| 2010-06-08 (Tue) | Surgery on USNS Mercy |
(amIMG_4245) Operation to remove gall bladder perform by Dr Cannizzo
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(amIMG_4260) Removed gall bladder in plastic bag
(amIMG_4262) Gall bladder
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(amIMG_4282) Doing EKG on patient after surgery
(amIMG_4283) Dr Cannizzo who performed gall bladder operation
(amIMG_4284) Patient name is Vo Thi Nhung
(amIMG_4285 Young boy hernia patient
(amIMG_4287.) Tue 1228p lunch time. These are doctors and nurses from local Quy Nhon hospital who came to tour USNS Mercy
(amIMG_4288) This is the patient who just had gall bladder surgery
(amIMG_4290) New patients waiting to do paperwork to stay overnight on the hospital ship
(amIMG_4291) Buddhist monks onboard for medical treatment on USNS Mercy
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(amIMG_4295) Americans getting ready to play frie
(amIMG_4299.) Tuyet (also Winnie as in Winnie-the-Pooh) gives Tigger and Winnie-the-Pooh to little child
(amIMG_4300) Catscan equipment used on the ship
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(amIMG_4305) 4-star Admiral Robert Willard (Commander of U.S. Pacific Command) and wife come for visit aboard USNS Mercy
(amIMG_4306) Admiral Robert Willard based in Honolulu, Hawaii comes for visit aboard USNS Mercy in Quy Nhon, Vietnam
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(amIMG_4309) Tuyet: This is my group (UC San Diego Pre-Dental Society)
(amIMG_4313) Tuyet and Admiral Robert Willard
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(amIMG_4318) Admiral Willard and Mrs. Willard with Vietnamese interpreter from Virginia
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(amIMG_4324) USNS Mercy hospital ship
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(amIMG_4328) Liberty time (free time to do what we want). We are enjoying some drinks along the shore in Quy Nhon
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| 2010-06-09 (Wed) | Going ashore to do medical clinic in Quy Nhon area |
(amIMG_4331) Getting on shuttle boat to go onshore in Quy Nhon (Wed 707a)
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(amIMG_4335) Morning sunrise shines on our hospital ship
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(amIMG_4351) Japanese Navy shuttle boat from there main ship, also parked in the Quy Nhon harbor
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(amIMG_4356) Waiting to go through Vietnamese passport control
(amIMG_4359) People waiting for the free medical care clinic at Hai Cang school
(amIMG_4361) Tuyet and best English-Vietnamese interpreter, Dong Oanh
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(amIMG_4368) person with six fingers (thumb is hidden under hand)
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(amIMG_4373) Tuyet with Japanese volunteers
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(amIMG_4379) Dental team at Hai Cang school
(amIMG_4381) patients return to shore from USNS Mercy
(amIMG_4383) Vietnamese patient who had work done on teeth, lips and eyes
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(amIMG_4388) When returning from shore to the ship, a Vietnamese fishing boat came beside us asking us for medical help.
There had been an accident on the fishing boat where an anchor hit him in the face and badly damaging his face. He is the person
in the light colored shirt. We took him back to the USNS Mercy for treatment.
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(amIMG_4390) Tuyet enjoying her bunk bed.
(amIMG_4391) There is not much privacy.
(amIMG_4392) There was not any room in the women's sleeping area. So, I had to share this area with 120 men. (just joking)
Actually, 120 women in this sleeping area.
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