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Medicine in Nigeria

Jim — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:37:42 +0000

Sometimes I miss the longer posts out there because I simply don’t have time to read them all. But for some reason I did sit down and read this one, and it was worth it. Frank and Barbara Esselinks are in Nigeria for just a couple of months, doing medical work in Jos. Read in this post their experiences with the Nigerian census, work at the hospital and especially what happened when a very sick 1 year old girl was brought to the hospital. The post is called Hospital Life.

For more on the medical and cultural challenges in Nigeria, check out this post from Kids’ Doc in Jos, entitled Resistance (Paul). Again, a longer post and parts of it somewhat technical, but if you’re interested in the details of dealing with HIV this will give you some insight.

Expectations in Africa

Jim — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:37:42 +0000

I don’t know exactly why it is. Sometimes you read a post and you don’t realize it at the time. But something about it is going to stay with you a long time.

For me, that’s the way it was with a recent post at Mission Safari. I’ll let Tim tell the story, but his story sheds light on the words,”unmet expectations”. Everyone, after all, has expectations. But life in the trenches tends to open our eyes in ways we never imagined, and sometimes in ways we never wanted.

Tim Hutchison is a doctor working in Kenya with his wife and three children. He writes on his “About” page: I have been called to work with medical students and residents to educate them in medicine and disciple them for Christ.

Read the post Bothersome Reaction, and then see the main page of Mission Safari here.