Author Archives: Bryce Noblitt MD

June Update 2024

Greetings from a wet and chilly Kijabe! Yes, it is still raining, but we have lots of exciting news to share with you despite the damp weather.  https://youtu.be/8d5JeECsxI4 Don’t feel like reading? You can watch the highlights right here! First and foremost, Emma is here! We are so grateful for a safe delivery and EmmaContinueContinue reading “June Update 2024”

Landslide Update 2

It had been a dry week in Kijabe since our last update. Road work has continued, the water supply to the hospital has been restored, and things were getting back to normal.

Then two nights ago there was another mudslide, this time a kilometer south of our house- three are still missing, feared to have perished after being trapped by the mud. The Red Cross was…

Landslide Update

Kijabe received 2.5 inches of rain last night, which has continued to fill the ravines uphill from the railroad tracks. Efforts to pump out the water have been hampered by the unstable ground- the teams were not able to reach the ravines this morning to continue. More landslides are expected, and people are being asked to evacuate

Trip to Tenwek

This past week I traveled to Tenwek at the behest of the new Kenyan neurosurgeon at the hospital. He had arranged for a visiting American neurosurgeon and myself to do two transphenoidal pituitary cases together to give him more experience. Tenwek is a mission hospital in Bomet, usually about 4 hours away. There were massiveContinueContinue reading “Trip to Tenwek”

Healing with Fire

Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.Hippocrates Medicine has come a long way from the days of Hippocrates, but his quote is a surprisingly accurate description of our modern treatment algorithm. Trade iron forContinueContinue reading “Healing with Fire”