Opening medicine

If you’re on our Facebook group (and if you’re not, you should get on right away), or following this blog, or even if you ever read the daily newspaper, you’ll have heard about Tarek Loubani. Dr. Loubani is a London, Ontario emergency physician and humanitarian. He’s also Open Medicine’s technical advisor (he get our articles up on the web, and manages pretty much all other technical aspects of our bold venture into open access medical publishing).  Tarek normally works behind the scenes at OM, but does blog for us as well and has made front-page news over and over during the past 18 days. It was 18 days ago that Tarek and filmmaker John Greyson were arrested in Egypt. They continue to be held without charges in a prison in Cairo. It’s a very distressing situation and we urge you to please join us in raising your voice (the petition linked here hit 100,000 signatories this weekend) to encourage the Canadian government to put every possible pressure to bear on Egyptian authorities to get him out. This seems like a good time to talk a little about some of Tarek’s other work—beyond teaching Advanced Cardiac Life Support to doctors in Gaza, saving lives in London, advocating for health care for refugee claimants and keeping our site ticking and humming, of course. Tarek’s association with Open Medicine derives both from a shared commitment to ethics in medical publishing and to a fascination with open access technology. One of his ongoing projects has been to o...
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