A trip from north to south.
I was a general surgeon. This is a medical show so don’t go below the line if you’re squeamish. The lower appendage Barry Hicks.
Some pretty gross pictures – so be warned.
Some of the photos below you may find disturbing. Do Not click the READ MORE sign if you are squeamish. They are all medical photos. I’ll put in pictures from different specialities, initially there were no other specialists where I worked. For the last few years there were two O&G specialists and an eye sub-specialist.…
A problem of insufficient Investigative tools.
In down country Ethiopia we used to say that in interpersonal trauma the rich – shot each other; the middle class knifed each other; the poor speared each other. We saw many other cases injured with digging hoes, machetes, stones etc, but the case for today was a spearing in the late 1960’s. A young…
Just looking at a picture…
I decided today that, as I’m about a month ahead in the daily devotional articles As I read it (plainly understanding the Bible) that I produce, it is time to do a medical article. So I decided to open my photo gallery and just write about a picture. I love kids so I’ll go to…
Diaphragm Injuries
Over the years I have seen a number of diaphragm injuries. Four come to mind as very interestingly different. While I was doing a lot of chest surgery, I received an urgent call to come to the OR, where a an obstetrician friend was doing a Caesarian Section. The patient had been in a car…
Upcoming book.
A few years ago I wrote a book, probably better called a booklet, for my students as they began their clinical surgical courses in fourth year of a six year course. It was relevant to their situation with lack of facilities and language difficulties. Their ability to read thick tomes was limited, so I tried…
Cervical osteomyelitis in an infant
I wish that I had had better investigative equipment. I wish that I had had more energy and time to write things up on the spot. As we all know you cannot relive the past. So in my old age I dwell among memories. Some of them very special memories. And that includes this little…
An expression of our daily life in Ethiopia.
Barry Hicks
Air in the wrong places
Quite an ‘airy experience. Barry Hicks
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