Day Off

After 2 weeks on the ship I was able to spend the afternoon in town. We hired a car to take us around. We went to a water fall and traveled the country. There are a lot of shoe and clothing factories in Cambodia. The wage for a laborer is about $3 per day for 10 hours. In one of my clinics I had a woman come in complaining of fatigue and back pain. I found out she had 4 children under the age of 11. She worked 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year in the rice fields carrying heavy buckets all day. What do you think was the diagnosis?