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Walk/Run for Safer Surgery

“I don’t care how you get here,” croons Brenda Russell, “just get here if you can.”  The same could be sung for the AANA’s Eight Annual Wellness Fun 5K Walk/Run.  Everyone welcome! The…

I left my heart…

…in San Francisco, where the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) held their annual conference this year. “How beautiful!” everyone back home told you.

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…

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…

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