“The English Surgeon” which highlighted weaknesses of health care systems in Europe, also brought to light entrepreneurial skills of doctors who use second hand drills in their operations. Marsh comments on the annual cost of perforators used in surgeries (£40,000), which are disposed of after one use within our healthcare system. If successful surgeries can be conducted with repeated use of perforators, I believe we should not continue a culture of disposal, if we want a sustainable NHS. I continued to investigate healthcare systems of developing countries in my submission for the “Newnham Essay Prize” in which I looked at factors which influenced the Ebola outbreak. In my opinion the primary factor appears to be the weak health care systems of the countries with a doctor to patients ratio of 1:100,000 in Liberia and a restricted access to hospitals, which result in an inefficient diagnosis and increased mortality. A lecture and subsequent laboratory placement in Oxford working with TB specialists allowed me to see how centrifuge machines worked and to understand that for me patient contact is a vital factor in a
“The English Surgeon” which highlighted weaknesses of health care systems in Europe, also brought to light entrepreneurial skills of doctors who use second hand drills in their operations. Marsh comments on the annual cost of perforators used in surgeries (£40,000), which are disposed of after one use within our healthcare system. If successful surgeries can be conducted with repeated use of perforators, I believe we should not continue a culture of disposal, if we want a sustainable NHS. I continued to investigate healthcare systems of developing countries in my submission for the “Newnham Essay Prize” in which I looked at factors which influenced the Ebola outbreak. In my opinion the primary factor appears to be the weak health care systems of the countries with a doctor to patients ratio of 1:100,000 in Liberia and a restricted access to hospitals, which result in an inefficient diagnosis and increased mortality. A lecture and subsequent laboratory placement in Oxford working with TB specialists allowed me to see how centrifuge machines worked and to understand that for me patient contact is a vital factor in a