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  • A Tribute to Dr Papa Webster

    In parts of West Africa, the Scottish reconstructive surgeon Dr Martyn Webster was not known by his titles or professional appointments. He was known simply as Papa Webster. It was not a nickname given lightly. In the clinical and cultural worlds he worked in, such names are reserved for people who stay, who teach, and… Keep reading →

  • 🇿🇦 SILOAM HOSPITAL 🇿🇦 – A TRIBUTE TO EVERT & LEIDA HELMS AND THE QUIET GIANTS OF VENDA

    by Paul Alexander Wolf 🇦🇺 There are places that never leave you, even long after you’ve left them. Siloam Hospital in Venda is one of those places – a landscape of red dust, endurance, fragile systems, and a kind of stubborn human courage that never needed praise to be real. And at the centre of…

  • 🏥🙌💯🇿🇦TSHEMBA🇿🇦💯🙌🏥

    (A tree of service and endurance – rooted in Africa, shaped by light, standing for) TSHEMBA, THE NGO THAT TAUGHT ME EVERYTHING WITHOUT KNOWING IT A memoir of service, rupture and quiet clarity by Paul Alexander Wolf I arrived at Tshemba in April 2023 with the uncomplicated aim of serving, learning, and contributing whatever I…

  • Netanyahu’s government will be held accountable, eventually

    The seat of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the Netherlands. by Paul Alexander Wolf 🇦🇺 Professional Disclaimer: I am a registered medical practitioner in Australia. The views expressed here are entirely my own and are offered in a personal, humanitarian capacity. They do not represent the views of AHPRA, any medical organisation, employer…

  • Reverence for Life

    Introduction There are moments when a story becomes more than a story. It becomes a mirror. This one is not written to accuse or to divide. It is an invitation to remember what it means to honour life – every life – and to ask ourselves what we are willing to do to protect it.…

  • GAZA: THE TEST OF OUR CONSCIENCE

    by Paul Wolf —— I don’t write as a politician, a diplomat or a statesman, but as a family doctor who has seen what happens when medicine is allowed to reach people – and what happens when it is blocked. There are moments when history turns and looks at us. Gaza is such a moment.…

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