bout de papier, Volume 16, Issue No. 1, 1999
Cancer on Three Continents
FSD 41. CAN YOU NAME IT without referring to the Foreign Service Directive (FSD) handbook? It’s the one for health care travel where “the standards of medical care … are inadequate in comparison with those in Canada.” Like most of us, I…
TAKE HEART!
It was one of those nightmares, “it could never happen to me” scenarios. It was April 2012 and my husband Dave and I had just returned to our posting location, Taipei, after a week-long holiday, and were about to tuck in for…
Children Abroad
The book is notable for two reasons: it is not comprehensive, it is comprehensible. Not often do these two virtues coincide. The medical information is explained in everyday language and includes everything from shots to snake bites to schistosomiasis. Keeping a child…
