the hospital for tropical diseases
I'm about to start my new job in the excitingly named hospital for tropical diseases. It should be an interesting place to be working and it has good links with all the research world that I'm hoping to go into.
The "hospital" mainly consists of a floor (8th) in the swanky new UCH building on the Euston Road. Struggling to get blogger to upload a photo at the moment.
It's also good for going to the London School of Tropical Medicine - just across the road - for lectures / library / meetings in setting up the PhD I'm hoping to do in 2008/2009 ish, though LSHTM has the downside of being toxic territory! Well... like the Chernobyl site, the fallout there will fade away with time.
I'm really excited to have got this job : it is probably one of the premiere institutions in the world for dealing with tropical infections, it serves the whole of the south east as a referal centre, and what with London being the multi-ethnic place that it is, gets diseases from all over the world. It's also going to be a good spot because it is close to my house (or my parents house at least) and lots of my friends are living/ working nearby. So everything looking sweet as. And not "sweet Asbo" as it has been in Manchester !
posted by Alex at 7:58 pm
1 Comments:
Good to hear you're doing well!
Your enthusiasm towards infectious diseases reminds me of your excitement in talking about them. I remember how we spent the trip to Mali counting the list of diseases, infections, growths and other ailments that West Africa has to offer..
I was bored at work so I thought I would use the google blog search and search "gambia" and...well, I stumbled here!
If you're interested, I keep a blog as well. and for your handy reference...
the mali posts start here"
I was reading my entry over again right now, and I realized I can't remember how to play shithead. I'll have to try to find the rules again, I remember it being a lot of fun.
Take care!
1:55 pm
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