News & Features
Inspiration to Reality: The Emergency Bottleshower
Inventor Tim Jeffrey, on the idea and development of an emergency bottle shower for relief agencies and victims of chemical attacks: a great account of how to turn inspiration to innovation, and an invention to reality.
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Photo & Video
Doctors’ Mental Health – A Call for Action
A brave and honest talk presented at TEDxAuckland by London paediatrician Dr Zeshan Qureshi on the failure of the healthcare system to protect its doctors’ mental health.
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Adventures
On Call On The River: Stepping into Expedition Medicine
Nurse and paramedic Vari McCall spends much of her time working overseas as an expedition leader and medic with Ninth Wave Global. She has sailed from America to Greenland, canoed along the Mississippi, rode on horseback in the outback of New Mexico and spent time with rural communities in Mexico and Peru. We asked her about her expeditions, as well as how she fits these trips in with life and work in the U.K.
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Students
An Elective of Extremes: from Nepal to Norway
Anna recounts her adventurous 2016 undergraduate medical elective. Travelling first to Nepal to work in an urban hospital and remote health-camp, then leaving the heat for the cold of the Arctic Circle to get a flavour of Norway’s world-class pre-hospital care system.
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Core Skills
Ski Patrol Equipment in Scotland
Harriet Gray-Stephens, a ski patroller in Glenshee, gives us the lowdown on first aid equipment in Scotland. Tips and photos from an adventure medic who loves the snow.
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