Teaching Anesthesiology to Rwandan Medical Students: Focus on ABC�s and Oxygen

Standing in front of the 10 medical students starting their 5-week anesthesia rotation, I realized that there is one primary objective I need to achieve: teaching resuscitation skills. This is their last clinical rotation; in 5 weeks, they will be disbursed as general practitioners to the district...

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Just to be clear...

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Cancer Care in Botswana Continued

So the meeting with the ministry personnel never actually came to fruition, we were unable to connect due to certain time constraints and obligations I was however able to meet directly with her nurse coordinator to share ideas. I got a sense from her that although cancer was had not been a major priority,...

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Matching MERS case identification numbers from two differing sources...

Update #1 27JUNE2015Update #2 28JUNE2015Sometimes people work from different playbooks.Figure 1. MERS in South Korea. Most cases now plottedon graph using their dates of illness onset. An outbreak in decline. This is up-to-date - 3 new cases from 21JUN2015 added (column at right hand side -onset dates...

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