Bittersweet goodbyes with MSF in Bangladesh
Yesterday was bittersweet, as I discharged my favourite patient from the MSF facility in Bangladesh where I have been working.…
Unsung Heroes
My favorite birth
Kirsti is a midwife from the USA. She is currently working for MSF / Doctors Without Borders in South Sudan,…
Nurses have needs too
Nurses often sacrifice their own needs to care for others, and this is right and good and expected. Nursing is…
Medicine and Me – Your Mental Health
The RSM's meeting, Medicine and Me - Your Mental Health, which took place over the weekend in London, was really…
New vaccines research aims to tackle Ebola, Plague and Zika
People around the world could benefit from new vaccines to target deadly diseases such as Ebola, Plague and Zika, as…
Refugees in Jordan: mental health
Mike Thomson is a doctor from the UK, currently working in Irbid, Jordan, at a Medecins Sans Frontieres project which…
MSF working to end fistulas in Nigeria
Obstetric fistulas are injuries that most often occur during childbirth, when a baby gets stuck in the birth canal, causing…
Doctors who abuse their patients
In December 2014, Dr Myles Bradbury, a Consultant Paedicatrian, was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment (reduced to 16 on appeal)…
How do nurses say goodbye?
In nursing there are many ways of saying goodbye when the therapeutic relationship ends. Some patients bid a cheery goodbye,…
The rising tide of violent trauma in A&E
In London we have seen in A&E centres a 30% increase in penetrating violent trauma and 75% increase in firearms…