KING’S COLLEGE LONDON

School of Medicine & Dental Institute

GLOBAL LESSONS PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION: 2013 ENTRIES

Category:

‘My clinical experience’

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PERFECT FIT‘A young woman who lost her eye in a childhood accident has a bespoke ocular prosthetic inserted into her empty orbit.’

Photographer: Gemma ManassehLocation: Hyderabad (LV Prasad Eye Institute), India

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REvIEwING ThE LOSS‘A nurse attends to a young woman waking up after a below-knee amputation.’

Photographer: Gemma ManassehLocation: Honiara, Solomon Islands

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Photographer: NameLocation: City (hospital), Country

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hOPEFUL waITING‘A frail elderly man rests after having a cataract removed.’

Photographer: Gemma Manasseh

Location: Andhra Pradesh (Mudhole Village), India

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aLL IN a Day’S wORK ‘Cardiothoracic surgeons working swiftly to operate on a man that has been stabbed in the heart.’

Photographer: Patrick Jahns

Location: Cape Town (Tygerberg Hospital), South Africa

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Photographer: NameLocation: City (hospital), Country

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ShOO!‘A stray cat relaxes in the rusty resuscitaire used to care for newborn babies in distress in the Princess Margaret Hospital, Tuvalu.’

Photographer: Samantha MooreLocation: Funafuti (Princess Margaret Hospital), Tuvalu

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Photographer: NameLocation: City (hospital), Country

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whaT NExT DOCTOR? ‘An x-ray of a patient with a suspicious mass - in the UK the patient would go on to have a CT scan but no such facility exists in Tuvalu.’

Photographer: Samantha MooreLocation: Cape Town (Tygerberg Hospital), South Africa

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hUmOUR IS UNIvERSaL‘The nurses were insistent that the shoe covers I had brought were actually theatre caps.’

Photographer: Harriet Bedell-PearceLocation: Mwanza (Sekou Toure Hospital), Tanzania

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SKy’S ThE LImIT‘Waiting with the A&E team on the Royal Perth Hospital Helipad for an emergency rescue helicopter retrieval of a road traffic accident .’

Photographer: Chee Ling LiuLocation: Perth (Royal Perth Hospital), Australia

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aLL PaTChED UP‘A little boy gets a wound dressed on the Project Amazonas boat trip.’

Photographer: Naomi SilvaLocation: The Amazon River (Project Amazonas), Peru

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TEam-wORK‘The challenges and improvisation of extracting a diseased tooth without aspiration, good lighting and a stable chair.’

Photographer: Paras MaldeLocation: Accra, Ghana

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STREET SIDE DENTISTRy‘Setting up mobile clinics outside a random house, enabling market visitors to have extractions.’

Photographer: Timothy StokesLocation: Nambak, Laos

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waRD ROUND‘Our daily paediatric ward round with Sister Salome, an FY1 equivalent who ran the whole 80 bed round by herself as well as attending clinic.’

Photographer: Christopher PereiraLocation: Mwanza (Sekou Toure Regional Hospita), Tanzania

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DENTaL SURGERy‘The dental chair and window that was also used for clinical waste disposal!’

Photographer: Timothy StokesLocation: Nambak, Laos

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maNy haNDS‘A bioprosthetic valve is inserted into a patient’s heart.’

Photographer: Gemma SlaterLocation: New York City (Beth Israel Hospital), USA

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PaTIENT IN TRaCTION‘One of the only options of treating a broken bone in Papua New Guinea.’

Photographer: Hannah EmersonLocation: Alotau (Alotau Provincial Hospital), Papua New Guinea

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a CLOUDED vIEw‘An elderly woman with a sight-threatening infection - a direct result of her poor living conditions.’

Photographer: Gemma ManassehLocation: Mudhole Village – Andhra Pradesh, India

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SPaCE IS aT a PREmIUm‘In the Emergency Room: A Portuguese Paramedic sutures a man’s hand and a local nurse sutures a lady’s forehead whilst teaching her students; all on the one examination couch.’

Photographer: Lydia JennerLocation: Dili (Bairo Pite Clinic), East Timor

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IN NEED OF REhabILITaTION‘A derelict, redundant physiotherapy suite at the Mnazi Mmoja Hospital in Zanzibar, Tanzania.’

Photographer: Suleman LatifLocation: Zanzibar (Mnazi Mmoja Hospital), Tanzania

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mEDICaTION IN a bOTTLE‘The medication tray in the medical ward. Nothing like those seen on a medication round in the UK.’

Photographer: Fatima AltafLocation: Kuala Lumpur (Hospital Kuala Lumpur), Malaysia

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RURaL hOmE vISIT‘In a home visit, a doctor speaks to members of a large family of twelve at their inaccessible rural home to encourage attendance at the local, rural clinic for check-ups.’

Photographer: Salma KamaledeenLocation: San Pedro Village (Cinterandes Foundation), Ecuador

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PROOF OF ThE SURGEON’S wORK‘A patient’s wife and waiting relatives make their way to the surgical truck to see his removed gallbladder containing a large gallstone. They are offered to take the stone home.’

Photographer: Salma KamaledeenLocation: Palmar St Helena (Mobile surgical unit, Cinterandes Foundation), Ecuador

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PRaCTICaL mDT‘A 27yr old man with adenoid cystic cancer gets the best of multi-disciplinary care in action.’

Photographer: Oliver AdebayoLocation: Montreal (Jewish General Hospital), Canada

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DENTISTRy‘First tooth extraction done outside of dental school.’

Photographer: Siew Leng TanLocation: Kitengela (Kitengela Medical Service, Dental Unit), Kenya

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GREaTFUL PaTIENTS‘At the end of a long day promoting awareness of hepatitis, even the adults were keen for a candy.’

Photographer: Seb VandermolenLocation: Tamale, Ghana

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a LESSON IN DENTaL hyGIENE‘Malaysian children in a rural village are taught how to best brush their teeth on a joint medical and dental camp.’

Photographer: Michael OnyemaLocation: Batang ai, Lubok antu, Malaysia

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ThE REmOvaL‘Dentists prepare a villager for a tooth extraction on a joint medical and dental camp.’

Photographer: Michael OnyemaLocation: Batang ai, Lubok antu, Malaysia