I have spent most of the week prepping materials. We have a generously allocated office with intermittent Wi-Fi, this is quiet a luxury out here. There is even aircon (although I am loathed to turn it on when I am alone, imagining horrendous energy consumption in a city with daily blackouts). So, I spend the longest period of my life on Microsoft office; writing presentations, designing pre course assessment, spreadsheets of candidates and trying to plug the large amounts of holes in my knowledge. I am here to teach point of care ultrasound. This is the use of ultrasound by the treating doctor at the bedside with an acutely unwell…

Departures Airports are fundamental strange places. It is one of those things we collectively ignore as a society. They have only become stranger now I no longer take flights unless absolutely necessary(humanitarian work being only exception). It is not just the mass ignorance of how our individual impacts can build up and cause devastation. It is the way, during queues and security checks when group together everyone’s individual intelligence seems to dissolve and be replaced by collective inability to follow basic quiet clear instructions. These seems the most apt metaphor for some of the societal problems. Alas, needs must, the overland trip between Brighton and Freetown, although admittedly epic, would…