Ethiopian Radiology

Radiology.

Hip and groin pain are a common complaint among athletes of all ages, and may result from an acute injury or from chronic, repetitive trauma. Hip injuries can be intraarticular, extraarticular, or both. Labral abnormalities may occur in asymptomatic patients as well as in those with incapacitating symptoms and signs. Athletic hip injury leading to disabling intraarticular hip pain most commonly...

Radiology.

Löffler’s syndrome was initially described as a disorder characterised by transient pulmonary infiltrates accompanied by peripheral blood eosinophilia in asymptomatic or mildly ill patients. Abnormal chest radiographic findings are said to occur in 95% of patients but there are no descriptions of CT findings. There are many causes of this syndrome, but in developing countries the most common pr...

Radiology.

Ethiopian Love Song

In 1972, as a “defrocked” debutante, I worked at a mission hospital in Haiti. It was a summer like no other: full of life, death, and love in unexpected guises. In short, the trip was transformative, drawing me to new worlds like a moth to a flame. Before long, I decided to study tropical medicine. A decade later—as an infectious diseases trainee—my Chief took me aside. “Can you speak with an a...

The Ethiopian famine.

It has been suggested that the Ethiopian famine is only one facet of a long-term climatic change whose effects include the southward movement of the Sahara. The impression is often given that famine is widespread across a belt of Africa from Cape Verde to the Red Sea, but nothing could be further from the truth. Famine is defined as an extreme shortage of food, but this must be viewed in relati...