I loved the Armenian culture and I met my wife there. On our way to visit our patient yesterday we take a turn into a small side street. Bangkok is a very modern city with high-rise buildings and highways. But poverty mixes in everywhere here. Poor people live under the big concrete highways, on abandoned building sites, or in any pocket of the city that is not yet occupied by concrete buildings.
Slums fill in the areas between poor residential neighborhoods and highways.
After a few minutes following even smaller streets we reach a group of huts built over a pond. Our patient's hut is made out of corrugated iron and has a very rickety wooden floor. He spends his days lying on a mattress in the dark. He has a urine catheter in place and a feeding tube through his nose. I am quite impressed to see the man being cared for excellently despite the extremely poor living conditions.