medical treatment abroad

Should we worry? We found the doctor in the labyrinthine alleys of a tiny Asian village. He wore a Micky Mouse T-shirt and was half-asleep.

Here I was, in the throes of labor and in comes the doctor, wearing . . . no, not scrubs, not a white coat, but . . . .

Something creepy happened to me while I was innocently living the expat life in Moldova some years ago. Yes, Moldova is a country. The capital is Chișinau (I thought you …

An Armenian dermatologist once told me not to bathe for a week. I found this medical advice a bit problematic. When you travel around the world and live in foreign …

I arrived in exotic Ghana puking my guts out. Not an auspicious beginning for a new expat life in West Africa, don’t you agree? But don’t worry, this was quite …