Career after surgery: volunteering with Medecins Sans Frontieres - a podcast by Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

There comes a time for every surgeon after a long career to step back and call it a day. But, what to do in retirement? Medecins Sans Frontieres provided Ivan Thompson a long-held ambition to carry out humanitarian work overseas. MSF – also known as Doctors Without Borders – provides crucial medical treatment to places in the world lacking the necessary support that we take for granted back home. Some of those places include volatile regions with large masses of displaced peoples, like Qayyarrah in northern Iraq where Ivan Thompson completed his first assignment in late 2017.

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