Year: 1984 Setting: Lome, Togo Position: Private practitioner at the branch of the St. Francis Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria In the consultation room on Ikoyi …
Category: Global health
Riders for Health partners with Stanford business school
Over the past two decades, British nonprofit Riders for Health has been working to reduce the number of deaths in Africa from treatable diseases by …
Are you fit to travel?
Year: 1985 Setting: Bottom of the pyramid of Keops, Egypt Position: Emergency medicine physician for a French multinational company The flight from Paris was uneventful …
Voodoo doll?
Year: 1983 Setting: Branch of the St Francis hospital in Lagos, Nigeria Position: Private general practitioner The air conditioner roars and rattles, and the waiting …
Know your enemy!
Year: 2003 Setting: AsiaMedic clinic in Singapore Position: Private general practitioner SARS has struck Singapore and I am at the vortex of the epidemic frenzy. …
What is the weakest link?
Year: 1981 Setting: Club Med in Haiti Position: Tropical disease specialist at the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris Club Med is experiencing an outbreak of acute …
Practicing low-tech medicine in Africa
Patients at Mulago Hospital in Uganda are entitled to receive only one thing: a thin mattress. Everything else -- meals, fresh clothes, sheets, blankets -- …
Thinking out of the box
Year: 1982 Setting: Ouesso hospital, Northern Congo Position: Medical expert on a timber consortium mission It has been quite an adventure riding for three days …
When you may be the last resort
Year: 1997 Setting: Singapore Position: Emergency medicine consultant Yes, I will be ready in two hours. The representative of International SOS, a provider of medical …
Baa, baa, blood test
Score one for low-tech, high-impact interventions: The newest revolution in microbiology testing walks on four legs and says "baa." It's the hair sheep, a less-hirsute …
DOA: Dead on assessment
Year: 1989 Setting: Medical office in We, New Caledonia Position: First and only private general practitioner on the island As I am consulting with patients …
STD saved the doctor
Year: 1983 Setting: Branch of the St Francis Hospital, Ikoyi island in Lagos, Nigeria Position: Only European private general practitioner in Lagos A few days …
I need this like a nail in the head!
Year: 1994 Setting: Chevron hospital in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea Position: Chief Medical Officer 2 a.m., a nurse wakes me up: Doc, there …