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Last month, an American doctor who is working with Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières/MSF) wrote these really harrowing and sad letters home from the heart of the Ebola outbreak:

http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2014/june/dispatch-from-g...



That was an absolutely terrifying read. What seems to make Ebola worse is the manner in which you die...bleeding out on the floor, alone. Doctors Without Borders is an incredible organization, and one that I gladly donate to yearly.


They are not without criticism, in Rawanda they might have supported the wrong side, supporting a group of refuges that would be the imperious for an invasion of Zaire, the destabilization of which has lead to continuous conflict in the Congo.

As Alain Destexhe, the secretary-general of Doctors Without Borders, put it: "How can physicians continue to assist Rwandan refugees when by doing so they are also supporting killers?"[1]

[1]Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa Paperback – March 27, 2012


  The hygienists listen to music although this week 
  they've been on a Celine Dione kick which requires 
  its own coping strategy.
Ebola and Celine Dion? Christ. No one should ever have to go through that.




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