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How to be a doctor in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe (The Lancet)

The professor of surgery hears a knock on his office door. A surgeon enters gingerly to apologise for missing an important student seminar they were running. “I was pushing the truck."

By Tom de Castella| 2018-02-21T22:26:59+00:00 August 8th, 2017|Foreign reportage, Work, Zimbabwe|0 Comments
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Tom de Castella is a freelance journalist based in London. Since 2002 he has written features for newspapers and magazines on subjects ranging from youth gangs and Mugabe’s Zimbabwe to Brian Clough and wild swimming. Between 2011 and 2015 he worked as a feature writer at the BBC news online’s Magazine section.
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