Tag: Medicine/Health
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› Read more: Resisting Therapy CultureResisting Therapy Culture
My first book, RESISTING THERAPY CULTURE, is releasing August 18, 2026.
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› Read more: Praying and Fasting for PEPFARPraying and Fasting for PEPFAR
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is being dismantled. Many people will die because they won’t get the…
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› Read more: Kabarak University Family Medicine Residency Funding AppealKabarak University Family Medicine Residency Funding Appeal
The medical needs facing sub-Saharan Africa are immense and complex. With the world’s fastest-growing population and some of the world’s…
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› Read more: making the little things available for little peoplemaking the little things available for little people
The smallest things can be a big deal. Just ask my son, who this weekend had a piece of raw…
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› Read more: Sewing and ShameSewing and Shame
Honor and shame dominate many cultural interactions here. High-status positions within medicine bring honor and occasionally a sense of entitlement.…
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› Read more: The gift of a safe deliveryThe gift of a safe delivery
As Dinya, the clinical officer, prayed, I quickly pushed the ketamine into the patient’s IV. I watched her carefully; she…
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› Read more: Malaria, Typhoid, or Both?Malaria, Typhoid, or Both?
All four of us have had malaria now– mild cases for everyone, fortunately, but I can assure you that it’s…
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› Read more: Cuttin’ for the very first timeCuttin’ for the very first time
I’m learning how to do c-sections!
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› Read more: So what are you doing now that you’re finally there?
So what are you doing now that you’re finally there?
Daily life in the hospital and outside
Matthew and Maggie Loftus 