Alastair McAlpine’s autobiography tracks how he came to work with terminally ill children
Caring: Baby Samkelo, who is dying from liver disease, sleeps in Joburg’s Baragwanath Hospital, the kind of patient Dr Alastair McAlpine makes comfortable in their last days. Photo: In Pictures Ltd./Getty Imagesf you were to meet a group of university students, one of whom was studying medicine, how would you be able to tell which one? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you!
We spend quite every moment of our existence on this plane in them, yet 98.3% of people are gleefully unaware of most of their inner workings, let alone how to repair them if they malfunction or are damaged. Then there is the emotional side of what they do. Doctors who work across the vast majority of medical specialities have to deal with tragedies that most of the rest of us cannot picture.
Dr McAlpine is a palliative paediatrician, meaning that his medical speciality is making terminally ill children comfortable in their last days. This is an interesting career, to be sure, and the path he took to get there is equally interesting. We are given a glimpse behind the curtain of public healthcare in South Africa and, as such things usually are, it is equal parts fascinating and horrifying.
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