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Return to Random Uganda - 16/Aug/2011 18:19 - 4630 days ago
Yes, I understand, this blog is beyond resuscitation.What is the saying about flogging a dead blog?Well.I am sure I won’t be t...
Increasingly more random... and far less Uganda. - 12/Nov/2010 20:09 - 4907 days ago
It's pretty sad when a blog that is already languishing in obscurity gets ignored by the only person who reads it (and writes it...
one last road trip - 28/May/2010 06:25 - 5075 days ago
One last road tripOver the course of the year, I have traveled with Alison (reintroduction: Alison is a London GP here with the ...
one last boda ride... - 26/May/2010 07:41 - 5077 days ago
One last Boda ride.Last monday’s hash was way out past Kireka (home of Uganda’s Nelson Mandela Stadium) on the road out to t...
updates - 17/May/2010 12:22 - 5086 days ago
a lioness in the Serengeti enjoys a little fresh gnu.for more pictures of the serengetia mommy and baby black rhino in Ngorongor...
what Africa needs... - 17/May/2010 11:23 - 5086 days ago
Okay. So I may be a little slow. It has taken a while to sink in.Maybe it should have dawned on me when I was at the Serengeti...
brief update - 29/Apr/2010 06:14 - 5104 days ago
Sorry the blog seems to be languishing at the moment.Don't be dismayed, there is plenty more cynical and injurious reflection le...
Nancy goes on Safari! - 15/Apr/2010 07:38 - 5118 days ago
The rare Murchison Falls rock climbing hippo!our first leopard spotting...Nancy wasted no time at demonstrating superior safari ...
signing off for a while... - 08/Apr/2010 13:15 - 5125 days ago
Nancy flew into Entebbe last night, after a brief stopover to visit Anabelle in Paris, and a quick plane change in Amsterdam. W...
Plight of the Bodas (part 2, up close and personal) - 06/Apr/2010 10:47 - 5127 days ago
The boda boda crackdown (see previous post, plight of the bodas) has eased up. Unlicensed, unhelmeted bodas have returned as th...
Further Impressions of Mulago, Part 1 - 05/Apr/2010 06:57 - 5128 days ago
A small boy walks tentatively into Casualty. In his left hand he clutches a fiber-plastic sack of clothes, in his right, a shea...
A relatively calm week in Kampala - 29/Mar/2010 13:09 - 5135 days ago
Last week was a week of mourning for the Baganda (people of the kingdom of Buganda). Many of them wore a strip of bark cloth or...
another trauma update - 21/Mar/2010 15:09 - 5143 days ago
Last Friday we had a case conference to discuss a trauma patient who sat around at IHK for over two weeks with an undiagnosed, u...
Crazy week in Kampala - 21/Mar/2010 08:10 - 5143 days ago
The Kasubi Tombs go up in flames (photo credit: Fans of Kampala FB page)President Musaveni's security detail clear the way for t...
Some Lessons American Health Policymakers could learn from the Healthcare System in Uganda. - 16/Mar/2010 09:10 - 5148 days ago
Last night was the Uganda Irish Society’s St. Patrick’s Day Ball. Guinness was flown in all the way from Dublin. As was th...
more updates - 16/Mar/2010 09:08 - 5148 days ago
More Updates on Updates:The week I was walking in the Rwenzoris (‘the place from which the rains come’) was a rainy week for...
updates - 08/Mar/2010 12:22 - 5156 days ago
On the couple in the car crash:‘Pushing the envelope of helicopter medevac…’They have been in the hospital since I left. ...
Wrecked in the Rwenzoris (Climbing in the Mountains of the Moon) - 08/Mar/2010 08:28 - 5156 days ago
for more pictures of the hike“Born to walk on pavement.”—Anonymous. (scrawled in charcoal on the wall of the Kitandara Hu...
Pushing the envelope of helicopter medevac… - 23/Feb/2010 08:50 - 5169 days ago
kampala, looking east to lake victoriaMbarara district referral hospital in the right lower corner.Kampala's old taxi park (left...
trauma update - 19/Feb/2010 15:13 - 5173 days ago
Trauma Update: 12 February 2010I’ve been having weekly sessions with our A&E (accident and emergency) nurses for almost a...
Plight of the Bodas - 19/Feb/2010 08:40 - 5173 days ago
one last boda ride?(photo credit: Irene Curley)boda boys out of guluobeying the helmet law(photo credit: kampala fan facebook pa...
Rafting the Nile (or LSU medical students go wild) - 16/Feb/2010 09:41 - 5176 days ago
(didn't take my camera rafting, this picture shamelessly stolen off theAdrift website)I’m riding the shuttle bus to go rafting...
another short, sweet trip to the Sudan - 12/Feb/2010 13:46 - 5180 days ago
in the cabin of the 206Torit International AirportTorit, South Sudan, from the airThe Irmatong mountainsOver Lake KyogaFebruary ...
Updates on previous postings - 08/Feb/2010 07:47 - 5184 days ago
UpdatesFebruary 7thRe: It’s so hot.It rained most of the day yesterday. We had planned to find a pool to sit by. We went bo...
First Impressions of Mulago - 08/Feb/2010 07:37 - 5184 days ago
5 Feb 2010First Impressions of MulagoMulago Hospital is Uganda’s National Referral Hospital. Theoretically, Mulago would be t...
It's so hot... - 08/Feb/2010 07:30 - 5184 days ago
4 FebruaryIt has been hot this week.I can hear you chuckling to yourself.‘Doh. You’re in Africa.’But even my Ugandan coll...
to kidepo and back - 01/Feb/2010 07:56 - 5191 days ago
headed home after a long day at the mud bathview from 'Pride Rock'lyin' in the grasshiding behind a treeghost lionTo Kidepo and ...
Eviction Notice - 01/Feb/2010 07:45 - 5191 days ago
January 30thEviction NoticeThe rumors have been circulating for a while:There’s a cardiologist coming from India to start the ...
Another Kampala weekend... - 25/Jan/2010 09:29 - 5198 days ago
Sunday morning… January 24th…Two weeks have escaped me again. My seven-month anniversary in Uganda has come and gone in a w...
Re-Entry - 13/Jan/2010 08:58 - 5210 days ago
a few pictures from dubaiJanuary 12thSixteen hours is a long time on a plane. Three weeks seems like a long time for a trip hom...
Happy Holidays - 26/Dec/2009 01:43 - 5228 days ago
December 25thMerry Christmas.Those of you still in Kampala will know that I have proven myself unworthy as one not to be counted...
on a sad note - 18/Dec/2009 05:22 - 5236 days ago
December 17thOn a sad note. According to today’s New Vision, 5 people died in a bus ‘accident’ when the night bus from Ka...
more adventures with the Ugandan legal system - 18/Dec/2009 05:21 - 5236 days ago
December 15thI managed to get my wallet stolen over the weekend. I won’t mention the name of the club, because I would hate t...
back to gulu - 18/Dec/2009 04:45 - 5236 days ago
December 12thYet another trip to Gulu with a side trip to LiraAs I was fighting car-sickness in the back of the ambulance last F...
another trip to gulu - 11/Dec/2009 12:13 - 5243 days ago
December 6thAmbulance ride to Gulu, and back.My second trip to Gulu (a month or two back I flew on the helicopter) and I stayed ...
VSO Roadtrip to Soroti - 07/Dec/2009 04:35 - 5247 days ago
December 4thVSO Roadtrip to SorotiDecember 2nd was international volunteer day. Or some such sort of event. About a week or so...
November 2009 - 05/Dec/2009 12:32 - 5249 days ago
November 4thAnother month has disappeared here.Just got back from a week in the Netherlands with Nancy. Nancy had the annual IA...
October 2009 - 05/Dec/2009 12:29 - 5249 days ago
October 1stLast weekend was the gorilla gala.Gorillas are big business in Uganda (and Rwanda). A 3 or 4 hour excursion into the...
September 2009 - 05/Dec/2009 12:26 - 5249 days ago
September 1, 2009Have a lot of lectures this week… yesterday put on an ACLS practical for the doctors. Went pretty well. Al...
August 2009 - 05/Dec/2009 12:03 - 5249 days ago
August 1stCannot believe it’s august already.Went out to fuego’s for a beer to celebrate. Have switched to Club beer as opp...
July 2009 - 05/Dec/2009 11:58 - 5249 days ago
My commute:I walk to work. It takes about 30” at a brisk walk (and, if its hot out, which it usually is, arriving soaked in s...
June 2009 - 05/Dec/2009 11:55 - 5249 days ago
Some first impressions of Uganda… 27 June… the ICT1 (first week of in country training, of which I missed the first half be...
another wakiso weekend - 05/Dec/2009 11:44 - 5249 days ago
November 29thWakiso for the weekend.Jo and Liam are finishing up their placement and getting ready to launch on the travel porti...
disclaimer and warnings - 01/Dec/2009 06:31 - 5253 days ago
Here in Kampala it is now the first of December. My computer still thinks it's monday night in san francisco, and I haven't the...
eid - 01/Dec/2009 06:30 - 5253 days ago
November 27thToday is Eid (Eid al-Adha), a Muslim holy day celebrating the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim (Abraham?) to sacr...
a kampala thanksgiving - 01/Dec/2009 06:28 - 5253 days ago
November 26thThanksgiving in Uganda.The rainy season continues. As I’ve said, I prefer the mud to the dust (‘cuz the dust d...
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