On April 4 late at night, Dr. Guy called me from the hospital. A child had fallen from the roof a house. He asked me to come to the hospital and bring the portable ultrasound machine since he was concerned about a serious abdominal injury.

When I got to the...

Ali is 36 years old and has been coughing for a long time. He has been coughing since at least 2006. When we first met each other and shook hands I was happy to learn he spoke French, so we could talk directly. We did not need a translator from...

Part of the experience of working with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) is not just work but also taking a break. The work in the project site is seven days a week most of the time, but then after two months or so, we get a break...

The desperate man asked me in French, "Doctor, what about my brother?" Somewhere, in one of the rooms full of bloodied bodies lying on the ground, was this man's brother.

A mass casualty incident had hit Am Timan hospital in chad. This man was looking for his brother amongst the...

The majority of our patients live. But sometimes they do not. Their stories, their memory and the lessons we can learn from their lives are just as important those we learn from the many lives MSF saves. As I have been rounding quite a bit in our Amtiman Hospital intensive...

Triplets (!) - two sisters and a brother were born a week ago. The sisters were born first and then came the brother. They do not yet have names, but their mother knows them apart needless to say. They got off to a rocky start but are doing well now.

I'm settled into the project now in Amtiman in southeastern Chad. The team is comprised mostly of our local Chadian colleagues, many who originate here in the community and some who come from the capital city. The expatriate team is a mix of Kenyan, German, Swiss, Haitian, Canadian, Swedish, Congolese,...