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World's highest ER now brings affordable medicine to the Sherpas
Countless foreign climbers who have run into trouble on Mount Everest’s unforgiving slopes have been saved by the local ER services. Now these medics...
One psychiatrist's battle against institutionalised wrongdoing
Dr Kiran Sukeri, formerly employed at the Tower Psychiatric Hospital in the Eastern Cape, has been smeared and harrassed for blowing the whistle on...
When the time comes for a doctor to move on…
The health care system is not kind to the chronically ill and marginally insured, and it is not particularly kind to their doctors, either,...
Mahikeng doctor defies strike violence to deliver babies
A Mahikeng doctor defied burning tyres and barricaded roads to deliver eight babies, four by Caesarean, when violent strike action virtually closed down the...
Mass shootings point to a greater role for the public in dealing with casualties
What the recent Las Vegas shooting showed, trauma experts said, is that nascent efforts to teach and encourage the public to help the wounded...
More well-trained midwives could alleviate SA obstetric crisis
With the crisis in obstetrics in South Africa there is no doubt that there should and now will be more focus on midwife deliveries...
WATCH: A trauma team on the battlefield of the Cape Flats
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Cape Town has the highest number of reported assaults in SA and it is on the gang war battlefield of the Cape Flats that...
Sugared beverages: 'An enemy with a mask of a friend' – an edocrinologist's plea to Parliament
'It saddened me to see young students marching last year for free education while carrying sugary beverages.' Endocrinologist Dr Sundeep Ruder addresses a plea...
Getting the word out to off-the-beaten-track clinics
It's a perpetual challenge to get clinical information out to rural facilities. So Briony Chisholm, information pharmacist at the Medicines Information Centre of the University...
'Sometimes the biggest challenges in psychiatry are one's medical colleagues'
As a private psychiatrist, I often receive referrals of the sort: 'Mr X is severely stressed and depressed. Please take over management,’ No medical...