Na: ?

When I was up at Nyangabgwe Hospital in Francistown, one of the country’s two big public referral hospitals, one of the doctors was telling me about treating a woman with major blood sodium abnormalities, given that the hospital had run out of the assay to measure a person’s blood sodium level. (For you non-medical folks, sodium is the first electrolyte you report and is basically checked at least once a day for anyone in the hospital in the U.S.). I'm trying to imagine hospital life and clinical diagnosis and monitoring without even basic lab values; I really do want to try a full rotation here if possible.