Written by Amy Hutton, ST4 Emergency Medicine, Mersey Edited by Anisa Jafar, Consultant Emergency & Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust From the second you step off the plane in Kathmandu you cannot help but fall in love with Nepal. The busy, vibrant streets sprinkled with temples and… read more

Written by Anisa Jafar, Consultant in Emergency & Paediatric Emergency Medicine Edited by Silas Webb, ST4 Emergency Medicine, Kingston Hospital Three days in the “Land of the Runners” and I find myself doing all sorts of mental gymnastics to marry up a dichotomy of fast and slow.  And of course, I’m not actually… read more

Written by Dr Giles Cattermole, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London Edited by Florence Kinder Fast approaching one year since the official launch of the European Society for Emergency Medicine’s (EUSEM) Global Emergency Medicine working-group, we look back at where it all began, with Dr… read more

Written by Dr Silas Webb, ST4  in Emergency Medicine Edited by Bethany Sampson The Northern Territory (NT) is big, very big, and incredibly sparsely populated. Its 250,000 inhabitants are spread over 1.5 million square kilometers. For context, that is fewer people than live in the borough of London where I grew… read more

Written by Dr Daniel Roberts, ST6 Emergency Medicine, Brighton Edited by Frankie Cackett The advert seemed to have my name written all over it. Teaching the use of point of care ultrasound (PoCUS) in a low resource setting slotted in perfectly with experience of one each of a previous ultrasound… read more