Dying of Aids in 2017
AIDS continues to kill: one million people died of the disease last year. The death rate remains shockingly high despite the…
MSF
Médecins Sans Frontières – a humanitarian imperative
For many years, I have worked with and supported an independent non-governmental organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières, (Doctors Without Borders) which…
Emergency health surveillance in Uganda
As a public health physician who has previously worked with Medicins Sans Frontieres in Sierra Leone and Turkey, I’ve just…
Doctors Adrift – job done
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGYwp3qGSsA Doctors Adrift Ted Welman and Jack Faulkner have smashed the world record for the fastest pair to cross the…
Letter from Haiti
Dr Javid Abdelmoneim travelled to Haiti in 2010 to assist in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake. In the midst…
Doctors Adrift are world record holders!
Here at Hippocratic Post, we are absolutely delighted to hear that our doctor bloggers, Ted Welman and Jack Faulkner have…
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…
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…
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…
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…
HOW TO | Vaccinate 710,000 people in 10 days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHaPmLJJ584 Organising a successful mass vaccination takes much more than just providing a vaccine to those in need. In the…