Lifetimes away
October 15, 2018![](http://www.scalpelsedge.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/north-staffordshire-royal-infirmary-10-768x512.jpg)
I recently had the opportunity to meet one of my early surgical mentors. He guessed that we had worked […]
Returning
September 10, 2018![](http://www.scalpelsedge.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/clock-1615141_1280.jpg)
Absence is the enemy of love – Traditional proverb It seems I just turn around, and my previous life has […]
Third culture
November 20, 2016![](http://www.scalpelsedge.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/bf2c090bcaf15126fdae316a54f18353.jpg)
There’s no doubt that living in a foreign culture has been an amazing experience for my children, but it comes […]
Three lives
November 5, 2016![](http://www.scalpelsedge.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/fire.jpg)
Grandmother wise In Nepal it is getting colder. Winter here is sunny in the day, warm enough in the sun […]
Good people and Death Eaters
November 3, 2016![](http://www.scalpelsedge.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/l_bnrgrn01_pr_hpe7a.png)
The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters. We all have got both light and dark inside us. […]
On the road
October 26, 2016![](http://www.scalpelsedge.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/tumblr_static_tumblr_static_7ite1izwo084g40oowogwoo0c_640.jpg)
Whenever I travel by car, I find myself smiling. The nepali road trip is speed-limited by poor roads, and road […]
I want to write
October 23, 2016![](http://www.scalpelsedge.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/GAF-MSt-Creative_Writing.jpg)
Since I last wrote, we have been on holiday and caught up with friends, the season has changed and the […]
Sunshine is coming
September 28, 2016![](http://www.scalpelsedge.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/nepal_ele.jpg)
One of the remarkable aspects of working in a charity-run hospital is the abundance of short term volunteers and visitors. […]
Laparoscopic surgery, Tansen style
September 8, 2016![](http://www.scalpelsedge.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Washing-in-the-sink.jpg)
It is easy to become accustomed to low cost surgery. What seemed bizarre to begin with, seems pretty ordinary now. […]
Luke’s version of Nepal
August 29, 2016![](http://www.scalpelsedge.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Luke-building.jpg)
This is obviously Cris writing updates, so I tend to write from a medical perspective. I have asked Luke to […]