Nelson Mandela in his autobiography The Long Walk to Freedom recounts his childhood experience during this rite of passage from boyhood to manhood. He writes:…
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The doctor turns to me and says you need to think about what you are going to do if he needs to go on a…
Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), along with Section27, the Treatment Action Campaign and Rural Health Advocacy Project recently released a damning report about HIV…
Because, it is far easier to want a nicer, more expensive outfit than it is to ask ourselves why we can never conceive that we…
If I had to choose the way I could die, I would probably like to go peacefully in my sleep. It seems that Nelson Mandela…
(For several years I was an expatriate medical officer on a big company diamond mine in Botswana. All names have been changed.) Ring ring ……
I saw recently a statement by a scientist that the first human to live for a thousand years has already been born. He was that…
It’s a dog-eat-dog world. Or, in this case, it is usually a sheep-eat-plant world. But in Chile, sometimes the plants eat the sheep. When I…
A welcome break from medical politics – I wrote this a long time ago … it still applies just as much now as it did…
I got taken to the doctor. He sat opposite me and said exactly nothing, not even hello or how are you. Pale and discomforted, he…