When I imagined life as a missionary doctor I figured I would be prescribing medicines, treating the sick and dressing wounds. I suppose I thought I would be doing more or less what I did in the UK, but with fewer resources and more exotic […]
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World Sight Day – lots achieved, lots to be done
The WHO estimated in 2012 that there were 40 million blind people in the world (with vision so poor that they are greatly dependent on others for help with daily living) and another 246 million suffer from Visual Impairment. 90% of these blind or visually […]
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Why Adopt?
Quite a few people have asked us why we wanted to adopt a baby. There are many reasons and circumstances which led us to this point. This response was written on May 30th 2010, four days after our successful adoption hearing in the High Court […]
Love: the everyday miracle
You see her in the clinic, in the emergency assessment room, on the ward. She’s had pain for several years now. Many fruitless investigations have been done. The vital signs, the blood work and the imaging give no cause for alarm. Still, she’s in pain, […]
Lessons from Africa: running and dying well
We are just back from amazing two weeks in East Africa. Our son Andrew was taking on a series of epic challenges, which included running up Mt Kilimanjaro in a day (he took 7hrs 16 minutes from base camp), doing the same with Mt Kenya, […]