Emergency Medicine and Education Blog
Mr J had traveled across the border to Zambia from Malawi. He had been admitted to hospital overnight. The brief admission note showed that he was in his thirties and had three presenting complaints: (1) “hungry” (2) “shrinking feet” and (3) “does not want to answer anymore questions”. A blood slide showed the presence of [...]
It is easy to forget the growing pains of the student-to-doctor metamorphosis. For me, the once vague notion of becoming a doctor was made real when I traveled to Zambia to work on the wards of St. Francis Hospital (SFH) in Katete…
Nick Bottom: “I’ll speak in a monstrous little voice.” – from Act 1, Scene ii of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (~1596). One day, as a trainee doctor working in rural Zambia, I walked through the gates of the hospital to be greeted by what seemed to be the “eeyore-ing” of a demonic [...]
