Doctors without Borders (known internationally as Médecins Sans Frontières) came to be out of the misery and suffering of thousands of starving children in Nigeria during the Nigerian-Biafran War, which lasted from July 1967 to January 1970. To win this war, the Nigerians blockaded Biafra, and so many relief agencies, like the Red Cross, organized [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Doctors Without Borders (Medecins sans Frontieres)
Posted in Medical Writing Business, tagged doctors without borders, medecins sans frontieres, Nigeria, Biafra, Nigerian-Biafran war, Red Cross, Bernard Kouchner on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Coping with Back Pain
Posted in Medical Writing Business, tagged upstate new york, back pain, Washigton DC, air conditioning, agony, cool ache, heating pad, hot bath on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I made the car seat flat and lay down in it. All I wanted was some rest during an afternoon of heavy driving from upstate New York to Washington DC, a distance of some eight or nine hours. I lay back and closed my eyes, the dry crisp air-conditioned air a relief after the warm [...]
Medical Writing: “The Itch”
Posted in Medical Writing Business, tagged New Yorker, The Itch, June 30 2008, brain's best guess theory, Muller-Lyer illusion, size-distance scaling illusion, mirror treatment, phantom limbs, phantom pain, phantom itches, phantom tickles on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By now, many people have had a chance to read the fascinating article in the New Yorker that came out on June 30th titled “The Itch”. The part that most people remember is of the poor woman who itched so badly she scraped a hole through her skull and was drenched in brain fluid one [...]
