COLLEGIUM DIGITAL NEWSLETTER

            November 2009

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2010 Spring Meeting

Registration is now open for the Spring meeting on  April 1-2 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City.  We are still in the process of finalizing the details (Fireside speaker, presenters, cost, etc.).  There are many hotels options available if needed.  Register at www.collegiumaesculapium.org/conferences.htm

 

Israel 2010

The spring tour to Israel is scheduled for April 24-May 5, 2010 and we are currently accepting travel deposits.  The members tour cost for the trip is $2,499/person plus airfare.  Registration is now open to non-Collegium members (friends and general public at a cost of $2,750/person plus airfare). The deposit is $750/person.  Our hosts are Kimball Taylor, MD (Founder and President of the Children of Israel Foundation) and Ed Heyes, MD (former medical director of the BYU Jerusalem Center).  Please be aware that the tour is limited to 80 people and we already have over 55 people registered. For more information go to our website at collegiumaesculapium.org/conferences.htm or boomerangtours.com

Suggested Readings for Israel Tour:

1. Jesus Christ and the World of the New Testament

by Holzapfel, Huntsman and Wayment (#4931232)

2. The Lost 500 Years by Holzapfel and Brown

(sku 4961114)

3. Jesus The Christ  by Talmage

(sku 0174185, 0170927, 4906960)

4. Gethsemane  by Skinner (sku 4438019)
5. Golgotha  by Skinner (sku 4536958)
6. The Garden Tomb  by Skinner (sku 4537008)
7. The Infinite Atonement by Callister (sku 3941679)
8. The Life of Christ  by Farrar (sku 185231)

 

We are adding a new section to the Newsletter.  It will be called “Specialty Pearls”.  If you have a Pearl of information about your specialty or medicine in general, please send it to newsletter@collegiumaesculapium.org and we will include it in an upcoming newsletter.

 

 

The following is a report from Dr. Susan Puls who is doing some medical training in Moldova for the church.  “Church was interesting yesterday. They speak two languages here...Russian and Romanian but not everyone speaks both so it is always interesting. One of the senior couples (the humanitarian couple) had us over yesterday for lunch...about 24 of us and made lasagna, soup and salad..it was awesome in their tiny little apartment! Their building is nice and they call it "the villa" because that's what it used to be...the Church has had it since 2003.

The other buildings here are all from the Soviet occupation which ended in

1989 so most are old and crumbling in appearance on the outside. Inside many are quite nice. The Soviets took over in 1918 after WWI and basically took a section of Romania and it became Moldova.  After church we walked over the local WWII memorial which is a huge cemetery, monument and eternal flame with soldiers all the time..much like the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetary. We saw the rotation of the guards...they really goose step high as they parade around the monument. There are many loose dogs here who bark all night and are kind of sad for me to see. Many have old injuries and limps...of course the people do as well.

 

The women are very fashionable here...always dressed to the max even if it is their only nice outfit. Many here don't actually have enough to eat or do not eat regularly and most are very thin. There are "maxi taxi's" which is how people get around generally...small vans with a numbered route costing about  30 cents US. There are many cars and the amazing thing is you will see BMW's and other nice new cars along with old beaters...quite a variety.

 

Today was our training...it got started late so we are behind already but our group is good. The saddest part is that all the participants are disabled and about 90% of them are with things that we could have fixed in the U.S. so that they wouldn't either be disabled or not as severely. It is so difficult to see. We are so blessed in our country even with our woes compared to so many, many others in the world. These guys really want to learn and improve and are generally so highly educated...literacy is much higher than the U.S. even. We had Kentucky Fried for lunch! So far we have had McDonalds and the Colonel! I think Pizza is tomorrow! Our group is warming up to us and are all very polite and anxious to learn.

 

Well, I'm very glad the first day is over. I did over half the teaching that I assigned to myself and it went well I think so my nerves are a lot calmer.

The only other glitch is we were expecting all Romanian speakers but we have one guy who only speaks Romanian and one who only speaks Russian so we have to have separate translators for them and all of our translated material is in Romanian so the Russian translator has to work extra hard to translate the written material...and she doesn't speak Romanian so she has to read the English to translate!

 

Our patients come on Wednesday so we have to really get through the rest of the basic teaching tomorrow...we'll be hustling. We all had dinner in Paige's room tonight....room service such as it was. The food is good but it was unusual anyway. The hotel folks are all very nice and try very hard to be accommodating. We are transported to and from the training site by a van and driver.

 

Well, that's the up to date report...signing off.”