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…
Unsung Heroes
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…
Camels and codeine – wilderness medicine
I have always had a passion for the wilderness and high places. My first expedition was after leaving school when…
Treating people at sea
Sarah is a doctor working on the MV Aquarius, a search and rescue vessel in the Mediterranean Sea. She shares…
Is there wine in the Congo?
Sarah is about to start her first assignment for MSF, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She blogs about why…