Selling the Clinic's Medical Equipment

     If I don't think about how much money and effort it took to outfit the clinic, I'm okay.
     That was in the past, anyway.  The past doesn't have much weight, compared to the present.
     I have to empty the 4,000-square-foot clinic, all twenty rooms and five hallways, by January 31st.  That gives me a little more than two months.  My lease on the building ends February 15th. 
     There isn't a "market" for medical equipment right now.  Doctors are skittish, medical centers are waiting for proof that life will go on in the medical field after Obamacare really gets cracking.
     We started posting medical and office equipment on Ebay, but shipping it requires a lot of personnel time, and my staff has been pruned steadily since the FBI's raid.
     As it turns out, a hospital in Guatemala will accept all our equipment as a donation, and will pay for a semi truck to pick it up and haul it through Mexico into Guatemala. 
     Several years ago I attended a medical conference in Guatemala, high up in the mountains in Atitlan.  Much of the conference involved visiting small medical establishments that serve local populations.  We visited a hospital in Guatemala City, too, and it looked like a throwback to the 1940's.  It was the year after a giant mudslide destroyed many mountain villages and killed people.  It was also a year when the horrors of Darfur were being made public.  My problems seemed very small, indeed--and they still do.
     Medical clinics in Guatemala are inadequately staffed and supplied.  Most women in rural areas have never had so much as a Pap test.  The people need volunteer doctors and nurses, and they need equipment.  Therefore, I am happy that the exam tables, digital x-ray unit, bone densitometer, spirometers, EKG's ultrasounds and everything else in the office--thing's I'm "losing"--will be donated to a good cause.  Perhaps I should be thanking the federal government for making this possible.