Being away from friends and family is difficult at any time, but special occassions can make us feel particularly far from home. Mike, a doctor from the UK, is in Jordan, where MSF / Doctors Wi
This is no time to take a breather, writes Dr Georgie Woolveridge, who is busy setting up an advanced medical post for Médecins Sans Frontières in Tikrit, Iraq.
Theresa is in Cambodia, where she's working at the Doctors without Borders / MSF hepatitis C clinic. She blogs about the tiniest patient of her posting so far, and why doctors are rarely entirely off duty...
Chris Sweeney is a nurse on his second assignment with MSF. He's currently in Sierra Leone working with children under five as part of a mother and child health programme run by the Ministry of Health. Here he teaches us how to make a tasty cheesecake, using limited ingredients and a little ingenuity...
Christine Rufener is a psychologist working with MSF in Myanmar. Here she gives her key Burmese phrases that will have you (almost) speaking like a local.