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Karen Milford

Karen Milford

Karen is a South African state doctor, a mom-in-training and a bad runner. These are the three things she writes about most.

Posted inGender violence, News/Politics

The horror of how our children die, I see it every day

Karen Milford by Karen Milford 14 March 201614 March 2016

Last week we heard of a teenager who went missing while running with her dog and family in Cape Town and was found murdered a few hours later. It’s a terrible story, the stuff of every parent’s absolute worst nightmare. We have all briefly lost sight of our children in a supermarket, at the park, […]

Posted inEquality

#IlookLikeASurgeon: A hashtag campaign that leaves me cold

Karen Milford by Karen Milford 17 August 201514 March 2016

#ILookLikeASurgeon first appeared on my timeline a week or so ago. I was interested in it because I’m a surgeon in training. Background: it’s a campaign against gender stereotypes. Piggy-backing on a campaign called #ILookLikeAnEngineer, it aims to show that surgeons are no longer just good-looking white dudes (think: Chris Barnard in the sixties) flanked […]

Posted inHealth

What I should probably tell medical interns but almost never do

Karen Milford by Karen Milford 2 June 201414 March 2016

Media coverage of the long working hours of junior doctors has caused much discussion and argument among my peers. Articles such as this (where a journalist follows an intern on call) and this (where an intern claims her hours are illegal) have generated responses ranging from anger to sympathy. We know that internship is difficult, […]

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