My first night in Cape Town, I woke up at 2am hearing a lot of commotion from outside.  I went out to see what was going on, and saw my first knife fight in the streets.  The guy who pulled the knife got pepper sprayed by the lone security guard on the scene, and then was promptly pummeled to the ground by the other bystanders.  They tell me that this doesn't happen that often near to where I live, but the surrounding areas are a different story.

Here's a picture of a guy that came in last weekend.  He had a rather large stab wound that was temporized by another hospital before he came to us.  They have been trained in the field to stick foley catheters (which they call "Foley's") into wounds that are spurting blood.  They inflate the balloon and suture around it, and ususlly the bleeding stops.  It does a pretty good job of saving lives.  We take them out 48 hours later in the OR just in case there is some bleeding and we have to put them under.  Otherwise it's just under local anesthesia.  This guy did great.  We pulled the Foley's and sent him home the next day.