Reflections on Challenging Environments and Gratitude for Resources

Dr Ian Nesbitt is a consultant in anaesthesia and critical care. He has carried out life-saving treatments in some of the most challenging conditions with none of the resources typically available in a UK hospital. Having completed medical school at Newcastle Upon Tyne University, he then trained in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. He has volunteered in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones, deployed to the Middle East in 2003 and carried out two tours of duty in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2010.

We discuss: 

• How to get into humanitarian medicine as a medical student - how to fund and make time for this 

• The realities of working in war zones and the varied nature of the work 

• Managing the perceptions of the local populations and working towards sustainability 

• And much more! 

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