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Ebola: One Doctor in a Firefight

Author
Tiny Spark
Published
Tue 06 Jan 2015
Episode Link
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/tinyspark/184741159-tinyspark-ebola-one-doctor-in-a-firefight.mp3

“It's confounding for doctors, for me, when you see that your idea of how a patient is doing is completely wrong, and deadly wrong,” says physician Joel Selanikio about his time treating Ebola patients in Lunsar, Sierra Leone.

Looking to the future, he is optimistic about bringing down Ebola in West Africa but remains concerned about the bigger picture in the developing world – the broken systems such as government and healthcare.

He describes his experiences with Tiny Spark.

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