Category: Adventures

Palliative Care in India

Palliative Care in India

GP registrar Dr Hannah Fox has spent the last year working in palliative medicine in Kolkata, India. In a city were health inequalities between rich and poor are stark, Hannah shares her experiences of palliative care on both side of the coin.

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Doctors of Concordia Station

Doctors of Concordia Station

What does it take to practice medicine in the coldest, darkest corner of our planet? We interviewed Alex Kumar and Beth Healey, European Space Agency doctors at Concordia station about darkness, hypoxia and life at -80C.

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Tropical sunset

Under the Sea – Operation Wallacea

GP trainee Katie Sellens swapped locuming in the UK for island-life by volunteering as a medic for Operation Wallacea in remote Indonesia.

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Ski Doctors in the Southern Alps

Ski Doctors in the Southern Alps

Jim Moonie and Sarah Abraham finished Core Training, left the English ‘summer’ and travelled to New Zealand to work as doctors for the ski fields around Queenstown. Let’s be honest – this is a dream job.

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Expedition Medicine: First Steps up Kilimanjaro

Expedition Medicine: First Steps up Kilimanjaro

We get emails every day from readers asking how to get into expedition medicine. Tom Yeoman tells us of his first expedition, and the steps he took that led to the summit of Kilimanjaro.

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Jungle Medicine on the Amazon Hope

Jungle Medicine on the Amazon Hope

Laura Gilchrist’s fortnight of dolphins, salsa, sunsets and sign language. Practicing jungle medicine aboard the Amazon Hope.

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SAFE Madagascar

SAFE Madagascar

Sav Wijesingha’s video of the AAGBI Safer Anaesthesia From Education (SAFE) course in Madagascar this year.

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Escape to Sabah – The Land Below The Wind

Escape to Sabah – The Land Below The Wind

Joanne Eagleson on taking the winding path through training, escaping to the lowland rain forests of Borneo as a medic with Raleigh International.

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Tour de Force

Tour de Force

Colin Baird cycles the route of the Tour de France as doctor for the ‘Tour de Force’, a charity ride that stays seven days ahead of the pros and finishes up on the Champs Elysees.

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Wheels on Kilimanjaro

Wheels on Kilimanjaro

We brought you Wings of Kilimanjaro – now Wheels. The successful ascent of Mt Kilimanjaro in a Mountain Trike by Iain Fryatt, a 27 year old man with Friedreich’s ataxia and the porters, who made the impossible, possible.

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