Doctors adrift with seasickness
Seasickness is an occupational hazard when you are taking to the wave-swept ocean in a seven-metre long rowing boat. That's…
Unsung Heroes
Barnacles and sharks
We are now rowing the first few miles of our 3000 mile voyage across the Indian ocean from the west…
If I don’t help mentally ill patients, who will?
Clinical Psychologist Emmerson Gono from MSF describes the challenges of working with mentally ill patients in a Zimbabwean prison. *Stephen…
Packing for an emergency at sea
Every sea going doctor takes along a medicine chest, and Jack Faulkner and I will be following in the footsteps…
A Pleasant Surprise – Caesarean Section in the field
You get to do the usual general surgical procedures, which is bowel surgery with its many variations. You get to…
Screen and treat for HepB
Hepatitis B is a devastating virus that infects around 250 million people worldwide and is endemic proportions in parts of…
All the colours of wound care
Yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black: not the potting order for the coloured balls in snooker, but the colours…
Medic at the helm
I’ve always been a keen sailor and I regret the fact that I’ve never had time to sail around the…
Life in Chad with MSF
As-salamu alaykum! ("May peace be upon you" in Arabic). This is the common greeting heard here in Bokoro, a town…
A lost generation – working with young refugees in Greece
Conor Kenny is a doctor who has recently returned from Greece. He began his assignment working at Idomeni, a transit…