Health Care Brazil

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I love palm trees. These are outside of the DNA Center, where they take your blood, etc.

I forgot to check the spelling on my name. My grandmother, Sigrid, would laugh.

I have a very nice neurologist, Marcelo Marinho. Doing something for the first time in a foreign country takes some getting used to. Every medical building so far has a receptionist that looks at your ID. We have a Brazilian foreigner’s ID card. Then you are given a pass to go through the turnstile. If it’s a large building, you enter the floor number you want on a numbers pad on the wall which directs you to the proper elevator. In the office you take a “number” and watch a t.v. screen for your number to come up, then you see a clerk at a window to give them more information and to pay for your visit. You wait again for your name and room number to come up on the screen. Fortunately, the elderly are given priority status. Everyone is very nice and courteous. All of the clerks wear uniforms. In smaller buildings you skip the elevator part, but might have to go to a second part of the building to wait. Sometimes the clinics send you the results by email and sometimes you pick up the results yourself and take them to your doctor. An ear, nose and throat doctor is called an OTORRINOLARINGOLOGISTA

Presidenta Ostergar with a tip for the missionaries. Her Portugese is really blooming. Don't forget to unlock the little musical notes on the bottom right of the video for the sound.

Lunch out after PT in our new outfits.

The bandeirantes (literally flagbearers) consisted of a group of men from São Paulo, who between the 16th and 17th centuries were responsible for clearing the interior lands in Brazil , having as some of their functions the capture of fugitive slaves, the enslavement of indigenous populations and the search for metals. precious in the national territory.