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Doctors Without Borders is outraged patients and medical staff are being put in harm's way, as Israeli military forces raid a hospital in Gaza.

Israel says it's carrying out an operation against Hamas at Al-Shifa Hospital - the largest medical complex in the Gaza strip.

Doctors Without Borders' Simon Eccleshall says staff were given just minutes warning before the raid.

"And the indiscriminate bombing of the hospital over the last few days has been in blatant disregard for the safety of patients. This is clearly a contravention of international humanitarian law." 

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The radiation oncologist sends Natasha to a psycho-oncologist (did you know that was a thing?) because her antidepressants aren’t working, making self-care too hard. This forces her to confront the mental health struggles caused by the abrupt end of her time in Malawi, the surprise end of her 25-year marriage, and a cancer diagnosis all happening at the same time.
Missing her old pre-cancer life, but not necessarily the marriage, she is engulfed in sadness and nostalgia but chooses to still show up.

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**About Breast Cancer Stories**
Breast Cancer Stories follows Natasha Curry, a palliative care nurse practitioner at San Francisco General Hospital, through her experience of going from being a nurse to a patient after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

Natasha was in Malawi on a Doctors Without Borders mission in 2021 when her husband of 25 years announced in a text message that he was leaving. She returned home, fell into bed for a few weeks, and eventually pulled herself together and went back to work. A few months later when she discovered an almond-sized lump in her armpit, she did everything she tells her patients not to do and dismissed it, or wrote it off as a “fat lump."

Months went by before Natasha finally got a mammogram, but radiology saw nothing in either breast. It was the armpit lump that caught their attention. Next step was an ultrasound, where the lump was clearly visible. One painful biopsy later, Natasha found out she had cancer; in one life-changing moment, the nurse became the patient.


This podcast is about what happens when you have breast cancer, told in real time.

Host and Executive Producer: Eva Sheie
Co-Host: Kristen Vengler
Editor and Audio Engineer: Daniel Croeser
Theme Music: Them Highs and Lows, Bird of Figment
Story Editor: Mary Ellen Clarkson
Assistant Producer: Hannah Burkhart
Cover Art Designer: Shawn Hiatt

Breast Cancer Stories is a production of The Axis.
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Der aus den USA stammende Pädiater Dr. Leo Ho spricht über das erste halbe Jahrhundert der medizinischen Hilfsorganisation, sein erstes Jahr als Präsident, die humanitäre Lage in der Ukraine und die Hoffnung auf eine gerechte Impfstoffverteilung.

Dr. Leo Ho. Er ist der neue Mann an der Spitze von Ärzte ohne Grenzen Österreich. Ho folgt einer Frau, nämlich der langjährigen Präsidentin Margaretha Maleh. Der Kinderarzt tritt in die Fußstapfen der Psychotherapeutin. Grund genug ihn in den Hörgang einzuladen. Noch einige biografische Daten. Dr. Leo Ho ist 47 Jahre alt, geboren in New York, aufgewachsen in Cleveland. Seine Frau, sie stammt aus Oberösterreich, und er haben sich bei einem Ärzte-ohne-Grenzen-Einsatz in Sierra Leone kennengelernt. Das Paar hat eine gemeinsame Tochter und lebt in Wien.

Do you want to hear about a fantastic group that is doing great work for all of us? Tune in to this interview with Ms. Karen Stewart as she discusses the saintly work of Doctors Without Borders! This is more of a movement than a group, as it assists and supports people in disaster and war-torn communities to provide themselves with medical care. This group is neutral and a-political: the only concern being to help people recover, physically and mentally, from trauma, and have the flexibility to do so. No government bureaucracy can match these results. And the care often continues long after they have departed! Today there are more than 43,000 people in this movement, of which 90% are from the host countries. Ms. Stewart herself has provided mental health services in 9 different countries since she joined in 2004. Do you want to be gratified, excited and proud all at the same time? Then listen to what this great movement is all about!