Book Review. Signs of Life
For stories of courage, of boundless philosophical meanderings, and, of course, of travel. Signs of Life, a sort of cycling travel medical memoir, by Dr Stephen Fabes, has it all
For stories of courage, of boundless philosophical meanderings, and, of course, of travel. Signs of Life, a sort of cycling travel medical memoir, by Dr Stephen Fabes, has it all
Dr Chris Edwards @EMtraveller recounts his time as a remote retrieval registrar based in Alice Springs
This ‘postcard from the edge’ is by Swedish Emergency Physician Dr Katrin Hruska (@akutdoktorn), who writes a predominantly Swedish language blog called akutdoktorn. Immaculate Nagaddya is a registered nurse, working in Lugada Hospital in Uganda. It is a small hospital…
Sandy Inglis writes an unusual Postcard from the Edge - the experience of an Australasian-trained emergency physician as a patient in an Italian Emergency Department...
Bishan Rajapakse interviews ACEM IEM SIG Chair Gerard O'Reilly about capacity building in International Emergency Medicine (IEM) ahead of the upcoming IEM Symposium at the Alfred in Melbourne.
A View of Emergency Medicine in Botswana by Swedish Emergency Physician Dr Katrin Hruska (@akutdoktorn), who writes a predominantly Swedish language blog called akutdoktorn.
In this 'Postcard from the Edge', LITFL's Michelle Johnston reflects on her recent exposure to indigenous health in Australia's remote communities. The 'Edge' can be quite close to home.
aka Postcards from the Edge 005 Whilst most of our postcard stories of international medicine come from far flung locations telling tales of adventurous and exotic medical experiences, one could argue that a lot of international medical work starts at…
Chris Edwards' gives us a taste of Emergency Medicine, Thai style in this 'Postcard from the Edge'.
Associate Professor Chris Curry has ventured the globe doing things as adventurous as Antarctic expedition medicine since becoming an Emergency Physician
This candid interview with Lee Fineberg and Mark Newcombe, conference organisers for DevelopingEM Brazil 2014, looks at what the upcoming conference has in store. Developing EM is a conference with a reputation for ethics, innovation and action in the arena of emergency medicine in the developing world.
I went to Africa a student and came back a doctor. 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