Much of medical intervention is presented in military terms. We talk of “fighting” malaria or AIDS, “arms races” between pathogens and the drugs to hold them in check, and the conquest of various pathogens. While there are instances in which battle metaphors are useful in medicine such as when we explain HIV to patients with […]
How Resident Evil Motivated my Career
With the rapidly approaching release of Resident Evil 3 remake, I thought this would be a good time to discuss the very real influence this series of games has had on my professional interests and development. For those unfamiliar, Resident Evil is a series of seven mainline games as well as a few cannon movies […]
No Magic Bullets
When the field was first, established global health or as it was then known, tropical medicine consisted almost entirely of doctors for the Royal Navy, Home and Indian Armies, Colonial Service, Foreign Office Service and trading and mining corporations. These newly minted medicos arrived in the colonies with the perfect understanding that their enemy was […]
