Our minds aren’t built to take in overwhelmingly large numbers and see individual stories within that data, but journalists and others sometimes work to humanize individual stories so that we can connect to the issue on a level other than pure abstraction. Right now, there are over 4 million refugees from Syria looking for refuge…
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Wartime shifts relationships, from the personal to the political, drastically. The history of medical shipping not only depends upon technology, devices, and research, but it also depends on relations in and between countries. During wartime, everything is thought of in terms of alliances and enemies, loyalty and treason. The medical world, though, has an interesting…
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When the Ebola breakout became international news in 2014, all areas of the medical field tried to respond as quickly as possible. International shipping opens up delivery of materials from places that have them to those that require them. However, to ship proper materials we have to cater to diseases’ particularities. Something like Ebola, transmitted…
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When we think of international shipping, we think of supplies being flown overseas or delivered by boat, but wartime shifts relationships between (and within) countries. In war, medical shipping works overtime both because people from their own country are themselves being shipped around in the military, and because of all the various kinds and severities…
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In the medical field, it’s important to be preemptive. Paying attention to your body, habits, and shifts along the way can help you stay attuned and involved before a potential problem becomes an actual problem. The same is true in the shipping business; we work to pay attention to things right from the source of…
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