May

17

T-minus two weeks

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a glimpse of life after Africa from James in Sudan:
he was speaking the other night that after you do one mission, and you go back home, you are ruined. there is a distance between you and others that is irreconcilable, things that you cannot share. when you try, the people you talk to either cannot […]

Apr

5

Another MSF blog added to the roll

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James is in Sudan. i like his description of Médecins sans Frontières and what makes them different from, say, the Red Cross. he also has a penchant for writing without capital letters. irresistible.
because the red cross wanted to work in as many places as possible and reach as many patients as they could, they thought […]

Apr

1

Médecins Sans Frontières blog: Shauna

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a “new to me” (and judging by her archives, new in general) blog: Shauna works for MSF in a small village in southern Congo. very near Zambia, actually.
We do public health, African style. It’s pretty amazing actually. The health care system here is kind of amazing in general. I mean in the sense that […]

Feb

26

Petition: “People before Patents” (Novartis)

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i’m not sure how much i’ve talked about it on previous blog incarnations, but part of my plans for a medical career have always included an interest Médecins Sans Frontières. an MSF petition was recently brought to my attention by a fellow student and - while i normally don’t feel petitions have much leverage […]