by Apple Lee | Aug 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Dearest readers, Thank you all for following along with my blog posts throughout the entire summer. Today, the Costa Rica Hospital de Niños team is officially done with our final presentations! Ultimately, I was able to come up with a solution that improves on an...
by Apple Lee | Jul 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
This weekend marked the last of our drive-away Costa Rican adventures. Since we decided to leave on Friday this weekend, we decided to sleep in a little and left for Jaco at 8:30am. Little did we know that because this was a long weekend with the Annexation of...
by Apple Lee | Jul 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
This weekend, we ventured to the Carribean side of Costa Rica- Puerto Viejo, with our two Tico friends (Rafael and Ricardo) whom we met during the Clinical Needs Finding and Medical Innovation Bootcamps. We learned from our lesson last weekend that not all parts of...
by Apple Lee | Jul 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Welcome back! This past week at the hospital was another one of the inpatient weeks where Dr. Bogantes checks up on admitted patients in the children’s hospital. Most notably, we visited a patient in the epilepsy monitoring unit. This specialized unit monitors...
by Apple Lee | Jul 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
This week at Hospital de Niños, I got to experiment conducting Transcranial Dopplers myself under Dr. Bogantes’ guidance. Having finalized my project topic at the beginning of the week, this experience was invaluable for me to provide insight on devising...
