Footnotes
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Editor's note — November 2001. Bombs were falling on Afghanistan, and Vancouver physician Maureen Mayhew felt compelled to return to the country where she had recently spent 9 months managing a clinic and doing outreach work (see CMAJ 2000;163[12]:1601). She offered her services to Médecins Sans Frontières and, after a 3-day journey by plane, train, foot and Landcruiser, began teaching in a hospital in Herat. Six weeks later, she left the city to explore health and nutritional issues in remote villages. This photo essay conveys Mayhew's impressions during “a euphoric 9-month period of rapid post-Taliban social change” in Afghanistan.