Daktari?

I have now been back from Africa for a week. It's amazing how fast this life will suck you back in. I didn't think I would struggle ...

One of the unique traditions of medicine is what we refer to as M&M conference, or morbidity and mortality conference. I'm unaware ...

Every once in a while I have those moments where a situation takes me by surprise and I realize, This Is Africa. Here are a few. Working in ...

At times, it seems the hospital is bursting at the seems. It's not uncommon to have 2 patients to a bed. Occasionally I've seen pe...

Today I completed one of my goals while in Kenya: I ran with a Kenyan! Actually, I ran with about 30. I got out of clinic a bit early toda...

In Kenya, I'm daktari. What have I done to deserve this title? Well, not much. I could be a white guy with a high school education, a...

Sometimes I think we make up words just to make ourselves sound smart. I think during anatomy they said we learned 7000 new terms. It work...