Al Jazeera’s much-feted medical series The Cure brings science, society and the general public together on one small screen. And independent filmmaker, Daniel Nikolaison is regularly responsible for crafting The Cure stories that are true (without alienating), enlightening (without patronising) and complex (but under 15 minutes). It’s a balancing act, and everyone wants you to carry something […]
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As in previous years, I had the privilege of representing Lifebox at the WHA as a member of the delegation sent by our founding partner, the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA). This year, I attended the WHA along with Lifebox board member, Dr. Faye Evans, who joined the WFSA delegation. Faye, an anesthesiologist […]
"The most devastation came from the uncertainty that was associated with being on the frontline." Dr. Igaga talks about protecting the anesthesia workforce in Uganda.
It seemed like fate that I landed in India exactly ten years to the day that I first arrived as a fresh-faced backpacker. One decade later, and hopefully a little wiser, I was back as part of my remit at Lifebox – working with healthcare teams across this vast country to make anaesthesia safer. Two […]
What has it been like, shifting from student to junior doctor? I remember the first time I did a Caesarean section by myself. I walked in and paused at the door – because obviously I’d assisted, but I had now assisted enough to be on my own. I was 48 hours on call, and I […]
Not every comic is meant to be funny. While the Scottish city of Dundee’s classic troublemaker Dennis the Menace always lunged for the elbow, one of its newer residents has gone for the incision. Handiwork: surgery in sequential art, by Emmanouil Kapazoglou, adapts the comic strip format to tell a serious story that is both […]
Dr. Renda Suleman on the transformation and immediate impact of capnography on patient care
Why is surgery such an important aspect of women’s health? Surgery offers an extraordinary healthcare intervention: delving into a patients’ vital organs with the knife, with benevolent intent. But the surgeon’s impact is holistic: our work goes beyond the operative and into a deeper understanding of principles of medicine to facilitate non- operative management of […]
Although your Lifebox Fellowship at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre is just beginning, you could say your relationship with the hospital goes way back… Yes – it came about in a strange way! I read about KCMC when I was 16. There were two books that I found so inspirational – one called Half the Sky, […]
