The icing on the cake…
…is blue and red to map the anatomically-correct arteries of the heart, sculpted from madeira cake by a cardiac anaesthetist. …is yellow and artfully piped above a simple Victoria Sandwich loaf in the…
Updates
Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
Featured
A full-on Monet
It’s easy to classify countries at distance. Hot/cold. High/low-income. From far away, it’s OK, but up close – as the Clueless truism goes – it’s a big old mess. (c) worldmapper.org Particularly when it comes to income. …
Eff. Dee. Ae.
Celebrities may not read their reviews, but at Lifebox, we do. Avidly. (Don’t you bet the celebrities do too?) We want to know what delegates found most useful – or not – about our workshops. Lifebox training…
Steppe-by-Steppe: Safer Surgery in Mongolia
Take, for instance, the recent collaboration between the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA), the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) and the Mongolian Society of Anesthesiologists (MSA) to deliver the…
Before and after
“To make people count, we first need to be able to count people,” said then WHO Director General Lee Jong-Wook in 2003/last week on the excellent Guardian Global Development Professionals Network. If only ‘counting people’ was as…
Science without borders, numbers with intent
Gymnastics in service of illustrating a point (and charming the crowd) during his keynote speech at the Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Scientific Day in London last Friday, and he’s waving his arms enthusiastically.
Raising the dough
Thank you for visiting the Lifebox Foundation blog. Please check as appropriate: 1. I like eating cake 2. I like making cake* 3. I believe…
A medico-maritime life for me
Bon jour! (The port approach is a lot wetter than starboard entrance) The MV Africa Mercy is the largest charitable hospital ship in the world, providing free surgical services (primarily facial reconstruction, benign…
Women in the workplace
Over breakfast at the SAFE course/Lifebox training in Rwanda a few weeks ago – bread, boiled eggs, thick black coffee and milky African tea – It’s always nice to see what people have for…
The World We Want 2015
It’s a magnificent proposition. Go on: design the world you want your children to grow up in. Just remember that you can’t choose their sex, their race, their long- or latitude. And you don’t know their…
Join Lifebox for Safe Surgery Updates
Sign up now
