Rocks and Hard Places

If I had to pick a pivotal milestone during my daily experiences in Cambodia, I would probably pinpoint the boat trip with Mum and Ruth in January 2014.  It was my first holiday, three months into my assignment with Medecins sans Frontieres.  Since landing in Phnom Penh I’d been bombarded by sights which did not … More Rocks and Hard Places

A Tale of Two Cities

In 1843 a survey was conducted in London which found that only 26 of the city’s 2,400 hospitalised patients were children.  Yet in the same year, of 51,000 deaths recorded in London, 21,000 were children under the age of ten and one third of London’s children died before their first birthday.  Clearly there was a … More A Tale of Two Cities