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BODYCAST - THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CSOT MY
JOURNEY INTO THE DESERT: Abstract Marhaba, or in English, welcome, hello. My name is John Delsey, registered orthopaedic technologist from Hamilton, Ontario. My journey began when I decided I wanted a change. Surfing the net, I stumbled across an advertisement to work abroad in the Middle East. Five months later, July 2001, I was waving goodbye to family and friends on my way to Saudi Arabia, “The Magic Kingdom”, The hardest part, of course, was saying goodbye to those I loved. So I ended up in Riyadh, the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. King
Fahad Nation Guard Hospital is an 800-bed trauma centre with the
largest and busiest trauma centre in the region. On arrival to the
Kingdom, I was given a few days to settle in and, after 24 hours
of travel, it was a blessing. My residence was a four-bedroom villa
which I shared with two Australian nurses. It was very comfortable
in size and amenities provided. The compound itself is a small city.
Anything that you require is all contained within the walls of the
compound: shops, cafes, salons, a driving range and an Olympic-sized
swimming pool. For a desert, it is impressive and luxurious. This abstract is a portion of the article
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