News in Dr. Clarke’s Blog

I was the one who raised it with Peter Malual. We were talking together and I mentioned I would like to go back to cattle camp with him. Through a series of issues, coming from each side, we have put …

I am not into meetings. I find that the majority of times, meetings are done to check boxes, not to accomplish anything of importance. So I was not anxious to be a part of the Ministry of Health meetings here …

Physicians see themselves as healers. That is why we go into medicine. Oh, I know that there are plenty of “perks” along the way, but the vast majority of doctors I know find much of their satisfaction in medicine in …

Rose told me once of an Adventist conference she attended in Juba. There were some kawaja women instructing the Sudanese women about the Bible, raising children, keeping home, etc. It was a holistic ministry, so they wanted to say something …

I have another child who has malaria and an unusual presentation. She had been sick for three days at presentation, was quite febrile and looked very ill. About half the patients with malaria have big spleens and about half of …

The first case of cerebral malaria I saw was in my first three months here in Akot. The child had been sick for 8 days, had made several visits to the witch doctor, and then finally came to us. She …

Mayom Mading Agau is, I believe, one of the “Lost Boys.” I know that he is South Sudanese, a Dinka-Agaar, living in Australia. His mother lives here. Mayom is the oldest living child. The first and third born died, but …

As an intern, I had a young lady, maybe 14, with advanced stages of a non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Her prognosis was dismal, but the attending on Hem-Onc wavered and would not clarify her status with respect to resuscitation. I was on …

We had another meningococcal vaccination today. During our first few rounds, we were concentrating on the schools in the area. We immunized the secondary school and all the primary schools in Akot and Atiaba except for Mayom Primary School. The …

In the midst of our malaria epidemic threatening to take down all comers, a car pulled up and 120 men jumped out carrying one girl. She was a student at Hope and Resurrection Secondary School. She came to the school …