It’s hard to contemplate Bunia without MSF. Bon Marché (the MSF hospital) is truly an institution – everyone I meet has either worked there or been a patient there – […]
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Tony Delamothe on the assisted dying debate at the Maudsley
Finally made it to a Maudsley debate (28 April 2010), after years of noting their carefully worded topics and starry lineups. This one was no exception. Household names were debating the […]
Andrew Burd on elbows and burning babies
How do you test the temperature of the water before you give a young infant a bath in a basin? This is breaking news in Hong Kong. A few days […]
Ishbel Matheson: Blessings for free healthcare
Politicians visiting hospitals, being cheered and blessed. Not something we’ve seen in Britain over the past few weeks. But it was the scene in the small, impoverished West African state […]
Julian Sheather: Whose potbelly is it anyway?
I have just been to a lecture – whose title I’ve stolen for this blog – given by Inez de Beaufort, Professor of Healthcare Ethics at the Erasmus Medical Centre […]
Emily Spry on the launch of the free health care initiative
Yesterday was Independence Day in Sierra Leone, marking the start of the country’s fiftieth year since independence. It was also the launch of the President’s free health care initiative for pregnant […]
Peter Lapsley: Hospital parking
Congratulations are due to Which? magazine for taking up the issue of hospital parking in their May issue. According to a survey they conducted recently, 49 percent of the public […]
Leifur Bardarson: We have a lot to learn from Eyjafjallajökull
The volcanic activities of Eyjafjallajökull have diminished. On the 26 April 2010 it was only pumping out 30 ton/sec of volcanic material (gases and ash) into the air compared to the 700 […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Behind every tragedy is someone’s secret hope
Every time the telephone rings, it could be you. Waiting for a transplant is long and difficult. With renal dialysis you are hopefully quite stable, but with other conditions it […]
Kiran James Jobanputra: first days in DRC
When you are accustomed to living in closed compounds you develop a long-distance stare; a meditative gaze you adopt automatically when left to yourself. This abstracted state serves two purposes. […]