First published in the NASGP Newsletter in April 2020 In the future, when we look back on this strange period, the experience of all of us needs to be acknowledged, and I’m going back to time BC (Before Covid-19) to track how swiftly we moved from complacent normality to a fearful wartime footing. 1st April …
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Doctors under Siege
First published in the NASGP Newsletter in December, 2019 Bashar al Assad, President of Syria, Damascus, April 2011 In 2011, Hamza was a young Syrian doctor learning German in the hope of going abroad for specialist training. Then the civil war broke out and he opted to stay in Aleppo, operating in makeshift hospitals on …