The Karabus Affair Speaks to Larger Issues for American Academic and Medical Centers

Finally, on March 12, 2013, a major American newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, reported on the plight of Dr. Cyril Karabus. Dr. Karabus is the 78-year-old pediatric oncologist from Claremont, Capetown, South Africa who is well known as the retired head of the Oncology and Hematology Unit of the Red Cross Children’s Hospital, University of Cape Town, as well as for his devoted service to poor children in the apartheid era. In 2002, he cared for a 3-year-old Yemeni girl with acute myelogenous leukemia during a locum tenens in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Source: Clinics in Dermatology - April 26, 2013 Category: Dermatology Authors: Leonard A. Zwelling, Razelle Kurzrock, Philip R. Cohen, Bernard Levin, Lawrence Charles Parish Tags: Letter from the Editor Source Type: research