Comments on: Marcie Lynn speaks French (and Spranglish) in French Polynesia http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2009/09/marcie-lynn-speaks-french-in-french-polynesia/ Women cruisers share their experiences, info and news Sun, 09 Mar 2014 21:56:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Paula Lyons http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2009/09/marcie-lynn-speaks-french-in-french-polynesia/comment-page-1/#comment-829 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:07:36 +0000 http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/?p=726#comment-829 Hello Cruising Women!
I am a novice sailor and a 17-year family practice doc, whose much more experienced sailing mate and I have the dream of cruising American waters and beyond. We hope to retire to a boat in the next several years. The problem is I cannot imagine giving up “doctoring” entirely. My vision would be to provide in a small way (for the most part) medical advice to other cruisers. When needed, I would like to be able to provide emergent/urgent medical care to other cruisers (or local folks) when formal medical care is not easily obtainable. I envision doing this on an as-needed basis, likely for free, or for barter enough to help cover the cost of replacing any medical supplies required and used. Do you know of anyone who does this already? It would be great to be able to contact a knowledgeable doc for advice on how this may be done correctly and with proper protection for the patient and the treating doc.

I am enjoying exploring your website, and my husband and I especially enjoyed the Women and Cruising Seminar this year at the Annapolis Sailboat Show. It was a great “tease” hearing about all your adventures. For me, the personalities and various viewpoints were great, and my husband also had a blast, as to him, sailors who write are his “rock stars”.

Yours,
Paula Lyons (MD)

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