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 (1,2). 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 three-year old Yemeni girl with acute myelogenous leukemia during a locum tenens in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

OncoLog Volume 46, Number 03, March 2001

Researchers Examine Link Between Stress and Response to Cancer Treatment Emotional Side Effects: Section of Behavioral Medicine in Department of Pediatrics Helps Patients and Their Families Cope with Cancer House Call: Getting the Facts About Clinical Trials DiaLog: Where Patient Care and Research Meet, by Leonard A. Zwelling, MD, MBA, Vice President for Research Administration Moving Toward Recovery: Exercise Video Features Adolescents with Cancerhttps://openworks.mdanderson.org/oncolog/1095/thumbnail.jp