Increasing effort is being put into selecting, training, and controlling doctors while public confidence in them is declining, litigation is increasing and the media are reporting more failures in healthcare. The profession is pressed for more objectivity by a society that is increasingly driven by its feelings. We have objective...
Top of the agenda at the meeting in London on 18th February was putting flesh on a framework document product of the first 'summit' held a year ago. That meeting proposed creating a new umbrella organisation to bring new impetus to medical missions. Within weeks we can expect to see...
The Nazareth Hospital was founded in 1861 and continues to be sponsored by The Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society (EMMS International). At the end of the British Mandate in 1956, over one million Palestinians became refugees and Nazareth became home for thousands of them. In 1986 the hospital was recognised by the...
When the madness goes to the market place A bright wintry sun poured through the windows as we met for the final session of the workshop. In prayer time, Peter Green chose the story of the healing of Legion and my thoughts went back not only to my patients who have...