{"id":618,"date":"2009-03-17T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T12:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=618"},"modified":"2009-05-12T18:10:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T17:10:39","slug":"richard-feinmann-on-volunteering-after-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2009\/03\/17\/richard-feinmann-on-volunteering-after-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Feinmann on volunteering after retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/columns\/icons\/richardfeinmann.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Feinmann\" width=\"160\" height=\"111\" align=\"left\" \/> What to do when you are a sexagenarian physician who has retired from hospital practice with 40 years in the NHS under your belt and golf\/Sudoku not really appealing? Well, my health visitor wife and I applied to\u00a0<a title=\"VSO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vso.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Voluntary Service Overseas <\/a>(VSO) and I am writing this from a hospital in Kampala, Uganda, where I have been working for five months.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>VSO did seem to want us and so long as your health is good, age is not a bar; the average age of volunteers is climbing all the time. So, off to Uganda and although it was hard adjusting to a huge change of lifestyle and temperature I recommend it. It\u2019s great to be blissfully unaware of crashing stock markets and to be in a continent where everyone thinks Obama is their president too.<\/p>\n<p>I really believe VSO and Africa do need doctors of my age. 30+ years of general and chest medicine gives experience which is so useful to hospitals in Uganda who aspire to provide quality care. I can treat and manage TB which is useful and I am fast becoming expert in HIV, but Uganda needs experienced generalists. Senior doctors who can make decisions (usually right ones), can\u2019t operate but know when you need a surgeon, can reasonably confidently manage sick kids, teach and mentor and bring management skills both clinical and general, are certainly needed.<\/p>\n<p>My ward is a charity ward in a private hospital, so I\u2019m lucky to have good facilities, good nurses and doctors and a clean hospital. The patients are destitute and come from all over Uganda and they are very sick. I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve had a CD4 count over 10, and the TB presentations are extraordinary, not to mention extra pulmonary. This is a country where 58% of the population of 30 million is under 18, yet abortions are illegal, where the government hospitals are understaffed and oversubscribed. Even in government hospitals health care is not free. Life expectancy is under 50 and HIV may affect 10% of the population with half having TB. Uganda is a member of &#8220;the bottom billion club&#8221; and the sad stories of patients selling their HIV drugs to buy food are all too true.<\/p>\n<p>Many of my patients are babies or young people. It\u2019s very different to the average age of a UK medical ward. They mostly have HIV with complications, but they are remarkably resilient. Rehydrate, feed them with naso gastric porridge (works wonders), restart their TB and HIV treatment and they seem to get better even though they look at deaths door on admission. Initially as an adult physician I was scared stiff of managing the babies and although many still cry when I pick them up (I\u2019m told it\u2019s my white skin!), we seem to manage.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m really busy, and my range is from pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in a 9 month old to myasthenia gravis in an 82 year old\u2026both survived!! Of course there are lots of lows, and you have to keep reminding yourself you can\u2019t cure all of Africa. I get really tired because it\u2019s hot and humid with unfriendly mosquitoes, but I think I\u2019m making a difference. A year might be enough but we\u2019d do it again.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s good to go with your wife and support each other through the ups and downs. She\u2019s working with the National Community of Women Living with AIDS\u00a0(<a title=\"National Community of Women Living with AIDS in Uganda\" href=\"http:\/\/users.wmin.ac.uk\/~geibelo\/nacwola\/home.htm\" target=\"_blank\">NACWOLA<\/a>), an organisation staffed by dedicated women many with HIV and giving help to women and children with the disease. Her role is to develop child protection policies and a youth strategy.<\/p>\n<p>HIV has wiped out many parents and it&#8217;s elderly grandmas who often bring up the children. We are socially very busy both with locals and other volunteers. We have just been to our third wedding out here!<\/p>\n<p>Winston Churchill called Uganda the \u201dPearl of Africa\u201d and it is a beautiful country with lovely friendly people. Its only blemish is appalling roads and heavy smelly traffic in Kampala.<\/p>\n<p>So, that\u2019s it, I am a physician, paediatrician, house surgeon, TB and HIV specialist and a fundraiser. I teach, do appraisals and appointments, go to hospital meetings and have good friendly colleagues. Patients are universally grateful, even when I get it wrong, and I\u2019m not being complained about or sued.<\/p>\n<p>Come on you bulge-baby doctors\u2026Africa needs you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard Feinmann<\/strong> is a 62 year old general and chest physician who retired a bit early after a serious health scare. 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