Underground medicine: Aussie GP tells of her new life under fire amid the war in Ukraine
'Once we start talking to them, they often break down, words spilling out of them of the horrors they have endured,' says Dr Lisa Searle.
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‘I couldn’t leave my mother to die’: GP tells of her mother’s escape from Ukraine
Dr Natalia Peker used a phone and family contacts to get her mother to safety.
How to survive a tactical nuclear bomb
There has been widespread discussion of Russia’s threat to use tactical nuclear weapons in its war on Ukraine. Russia is estimated to have thousands of…
War: The inhuman cost of medical progress
With Ukraine certainties are few. We cannot predict how far the mass destruction will spread, nor for how long. We cannot confidently assess the chances…
Should pharma companies go further in the boycott of Russia?
In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and overwhelming destruction of property and loss of innocent lives, a number of western companies – from McDonalds…
Doctor ‘ready to fight’ for his home of Ukraine
Sports medicine specialist Dr Dmytro Babelyuk of Lviv is among an army of doctors staying to help injured and sick citizens.
David Beckham hands Instagram account to Ukraine doctor
The paediatric anaesthetist posted stories about how war has changed medicine in her city.
‘Every day is about their survival’: Australian GPs fear for family in Ukraine
Dr Tetyana Seppi says her brother and nephew are sheltering from air strikes in her home city.
The doctors and nurses of Ukraine need our help – this is what we can do
Reports earlier this week of Russian attacks and siege of a major hospital in the Ukraine city of Mariupol indicate a particularly bleak and dark…
Doctors risk their lives in Ukraine’s besieged hospitals
Ukrainian oncologist Dr Nataliia Verovkina fled to Munich, only to return.
