A fascinating write up of life at a remote healthpost in Nepal

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Mark Hannaford

Visit to Deusa Healthpost, Solukhumbu (March 2009) 
My name is Alina, and I am a medical student from the UK.  In February, with my boyfriend Euan, a nurse in A&E, we walked to the village of Deusa in the Everest region of Nepal.  We were away for just over 6 weeks. Having walked for 4 days [...]

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Luanne Freer joins the Expedition Medicine team.

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Mark Hannaford

We where privileged at EML to have the Everest Base Camp MD Luanne Freer join our lecture team in the Lake District during here recent visit to the UK

She has a great website for those of you interested in altitude medicine and the video below illustrates the difficulties of operating at [...]

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