This video is from Denis Allard. It was shot back in 2008 in a South African township hospital. Denis is currently a trauma surgeon in an UN hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.
An ED Intensivist from NY. No conflicts of interest (coi).
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The video is impressive for several reasons; the most of which is the surgeon’s demeanor throughout.
Thank you Sam Ghali….The demeanor is the result of a ‘Germanish’ cultural upbringing (born in Luxemburg) working in the South African township hospital context where you had ‘to do a lot with a little’ and where we dealt with up to 35 penetrating cardiac injuries in one single year (235 over my 11 year stay as the only registered trauma surgeon). The ‘Theemus’ was also a result from my Medical studies in french speaking Belgium 😉
The Theeemus, What sorry sir? The Theeemus…. Ohh the Thymus. Brilliant
Glad I can also make people laugh Andrew hahahah….. speaking 4 languages of which 3 with a German/french accent is a very European thing…..my assisting registrar was in her beginning years….and is today a qualified plastic surgeon in South Africa (I believe)…we ran an 80 surgical beds unit, doing emergency and trauma pathology only for a 1,3 million underpriviledged population of the Cape Town townships, with 3 senior clinicians (of which only one a registered surgeon), 6-7 junior trainees (some not yet in an official training program), and 5 interns. 300 operative cases per month in two theaters, 250 penetrating truncal trauma surgical cases requiring surgery per year and monthly over 80 chest drain placements for stab chest (not counted in the OR cases)!
Trained in cape town– denis is a french speaking Trauma surgeon.. GF Jooste is nestled right in the middle of the cape flats .. excellent hospital for trauma.. thats your 30 chest drains a night hospital
Did you work with us at Jooste Ashraaf Latona? Your name rings a bell. Were you a UCT student or an intern or later an MO?…..My mothertongue is ‘Luxemburgish’ (like the current EU president Juncker), and I learned German, then French, then English in school. Only started to live in english at the age of 33…..