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Watsi fellow Elizabeth Sherwin chronicles a day in her first week at Wuqu' Kawoq, Watsi's medical partner in Guatemala. “Doña Emiliana!” Estelita’s voice sings through the trees, the echo…
What do street art, an auction, and a Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet have in common? And what could they have to do with saving lives across the globe? Normally,…
You’re a busy a doctor. You have few minutes to spare and just received a survey about a prescription medication. You know that the data you submit will eventually…
At most conferences, attendees leave company booths with business cards, pamphlets, or free trials. But this year, at the Annual National Institute of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, attendees who…
Last year, I gave my dad a Watsi gift card for his birthday. I watched him go on the homepage and read the patients' stories. I was curious who he’…
We met Khem in Cambodia. He’s a 70-year-old father from Cambodia with eight daughters and 35 grandchildren. "Some say it is a large family. But for me it is…
We met BT at his desk. But the 44-year-old care coordinator at Children’s Surgical Centre [https://watsi.org/partners/csc?utm_source=watsi&utm_medium=blog&utm_content=CSC&…
Meet the all-woman team of surgeons changing the face of healthcare in Cambodia. Cambodia’s healthcare system collapsed fifty years ago. In the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge came to power…
Watsi cofounder Grace Garey was named one of Elle's top women in tech! The full article (original [http://www.elle.com/culture/tech/news/a28764/elle-women-in-tech/]) from Elle is below:…
What do you bring when you need care? An estimated 400 million [http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/174536/1/9789241564977_eng.pdf] people around the world have no…
A few months ago, we detected an increase in no-show patients at one of the hospitals that provides healthcare to Watsi patients in Kenya. The patients who failed to show…
In honor of Mother's Day, we asked mothers in Cambodia and the U.S. what advice they give their children. No two answers were the same, but they all had…
In 1997, University of Oregon professor Paul Slovic sat at his desk in Oregon, but his mind was 8,000 miles away in Rwanda. It was just three years after…
> Join us for a live chat on Reddit with Dominga, a patient who was locked out of the Guatemalan healthcare system, and Peter, the doctor who made sure she received…
> In Guatemala, the biggest obstacle to accessing healthcare isn’t always money. Francisca has had severe diabetes since she was six years old. When she got pregnant last year, she…
San Francisco’s LinkedIn [http://linkedin.com] office hosted a St. Patrick’s Day fundraiser yesterday for Watsi. LinkedIn’s four business lines — sales, marketing, talent, and Lynda — raced to…
Some patients and their families wait years for healthcare. When they finally have the opportunity to receive treatment, what do they say? When a patient seeks care, a doctor interviews…