My mobile rings in the middle of a busy day, “Hi Rachael, its Brigitte from MSF UK, I’ve had a call from Paris, they were wondering if by any chance you could be free to go to Syria next week?” A week later—Chris and Elaine from the anaesthetic department having worked wonders with the rota—I […]
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Greg Elder: Hippocrates: a casualty of the war in Syria
A doctor’s protest Principles Four months ago en route to work I read an article about how the blood transfusion services in Syria had been taken over by the Ministry of Defence as a means to target patients injured in demonstrations against the government. I found this deeply disturbing and described it as a “violation […]