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Realities
Whatever their age, doctors who volunteer with MSF don't all fit the same mold. Some manage to interrupt their practices to do emergency missions for a few weeks each year. Others devote most of their careers to aid work, having always known they were most comfortable caring for patients largely forgotten by others. In addition to her work with MSF ( Read more... ) -
Helplessness
You don't have to be a doctor or nurse to know that countless people die in the developing world from senseless violence, or for lack of basic drugs, or because medical staff don't have the training or tools they need. But it's something quite different when these patients die on your watch. Even after eight years in the field, Olson never got used ( Read more... ) -
Artemisinin
Unlike leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness, malaria is well known to everyone in the West, though today it's largely thought of as a historical curiosity like smallpox of the Black Death. Yet it was endemic in many developed countries only a few decades ago -- Holland did not eradicate it until after World War II. Today, while industrialised ( Read more... ) -
This is exactly why I travel, and I want to, for the rest of my life
There is nothing like riding a bicycle across the Golden Gate Bridge or seeing the Coliseum at sunset. I wish I could paint a picture for you of how incredible the Guatemalan mountains are or what a rush it is to appear on Italian TV. Even the amazing photographs I have of Niagara Falls and the American Midwest countryside do not do these ( Read more... ) -
Pig in a cage on antibiotics
There is a moment during a structure fire when you know you are either going to get the upper hand or it's going to get the upper hand on you. You notice the ceiling patch threatening to fall and the staircase voraciously eating itself alive and the synthetic carpet glued to the soles of your shoes. The sum of the parts overwhelms, and that's when ( Read more... ) -
And I didn't ask you why
All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost.From the ashes a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was broken,The crownless again shall be king.
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