Emergency physician James Maskalyk's new book Six Months in Sudan, about his work with Doctors Without Borders, hits shelves tomorrow. The book began as a blog Dr Maskalyk (right) wrote during his tour of duty in Abyei, on the volatile border of Sudan and southern Sudan.
On Monday Canadian Medicine will give you a chance to preview a chapter of the book.
In the meantime, you can read a Q&A with Dr Maskalyk in The Globe and Mail.
You wrote about a colleague who said your first mission with MSF would 'ruin' you. What did he mean?Read the rest of the Q&A here. For more recent updates on Dr Maskalyk's work and to read more about the book, you can visit his website, where he's got a blog, videos, photos and more.
It's tough to go back to your regular life and not have that place inside of you, in some way. You're always choosing not to go back.
So, are you ruined?
I don't think so. I'm pulled back there, in a way. That's always going to be a part of who I am. And there's nothing I can do about that any more.
And make sure to check Canadian Medicine on Monday morning to read an excerpt from Six Months in Sudan.
Photo: Dr James Maskalyk
1 comments:
How poignant this is.......
.....that the medical servant to a country writhing in the pain of rape and pillage over a fight designed to capture the last fertile area for redistribution of diminishing resources........
....... does not see an equivalent event occurring in his own medical community.... within his own nation
:(
I guess the difference is determined by " who is seen as the hero ...and who is seen as the villain"
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