I recently had the opportunity to meet one of my early surgical mentors.  He guessed that we had worked […]

Absence is the enemy of love – Traditional proverb It seems I just turn around, and my previous life has […]

There’s no doubt that living in a foreign culture has been an amazing experience for my children, but it comes […]

Grandmother wise In Nepal it is getting colder.  Winter here is sunny in the day, warm enough in the sun […]

The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.  We all have got both light and dark inside us. […]

Whenever I travel by car, I find myself smiling.  The nepali road trip is speed-limited by poor roads, and road […]

Since I last wrote, we have been on holiday and caught up with friends, the season has changed and the […]

One of the remarkable aspects of working in a charity-run hospital is the abundance of short term volunteers and visitors. […]

It is easy to become accustomed to low cost surgery.  What seemed bizarre to begin with, seems pretty ordinary now. […]

This is obviously Cris writing updates, so I tend to write from a medical perspective. I have asked Luke to […]