Amit Majmudar

‘The patients who really need seeing are usually unaware they are being seen.’

María Victoria Jiménez

‘Maybe if I’d participated more when I was a student, I’d have had a well formed outlook about who people really are, and I would have better grasped evil.’

Kathleen Jamie & Brigid Collins

‘The survival rates for people like me are high nowadays.’

Chloe Aridjis

‘In those fervently atheist times, it wasn’t God or his angelic messengers who would come forth from the sky, but the cosmonaut.’

Henry Marsh

Maaza Mengiste

‘Meles Zenawi’s legacy is as complicated as the life he chose to live, under a name (Meles) that he took from a fallen comrade during his days as a guerrilla fighter. ’

Colin Grant

‘Oftentimes it took so long to ferry the injured that rather than send an ambulance the A&E doctors might as well have sent a hearse.’

Mirza Waheed

‘I first stepped into Bush House on a dreary November day in 2001. It was a trepid walk.’

M.J. Hyland

‘A few weeks after I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, I made a pact with dying.’

Issue 120

Terrence Holt

‘At the centre of all this lies the patient, the only one in the room who isn’t shouting.’

Ike Anya

‘He has come to us against the wishes of his family and the village and I feel that I owe him something.’

Issue 120

Linda H. Davis

‘Long after I had ceased feeling guilty about my father’s death, I still felt defined by it.’

Pauls Toutonghi

‘Political institutions can be as fragile as the human bodies that run them.’