Introduction

This blog has been created to chronicle the events of my upcoming trip to India where I will be traveling with the Himalayan Health Exchange to provide medical care to rural villages in northern India in the Himachal Pradesh. The group consists of medical students, residents, and attending physicians from all over the world.

I will be leaving from Chapel Hill on June 26, 2008 with 3 fellow rising second year UNC medical students: Anna Berry, Joshua Gant, and Nathan Montgomery. Our flight will leave from RDU in Raleigh and we will fly to London and then to New Delhi where we will meet a member of the HHE team who will escort us to our hotel for the night.

More information about the trip will be provided in subsequent posts. I hope to include crew bios, personal thoughts, and letters home. During the trip I will not have internet access so most of my postings will be retrospective and pieced together from handwritten notes.