The doctor and the warlord: a fictional tale of moral ambiguity.

The facility was a small former Christian mission hospital now run by the Physicians International charity. Residing about 90 km outside Mogadishu, in the middle of farmland, stray chickens and goats attracted by food scraps were regular visitors. The hospital was equipped with a single operating room containing a still serviceable operating table and an old Boyle anesthesia machine supplied by oxygen and nitrous oxide cylinders, subject to availability. An associated EMO draw-over vaporizer often sat unused, as halothane was frequently unavailable. As a result, local anesthesia with or without ketamine had become the technique used for a great many procedures.