Dr. Erik Erichsen is a Danish/Swedish surgeon who spent a significant part of his professional career in low-resource settings, primarily in Africa. He is known from the documentary ‘The Rebel Surgeon,’ which features his work at a rural hospital in Ethiopia he ran together with his wife Sennait. He started that after working for 30 years in Norway and Sweden as an orthopedic surgeon. In the movie he explains, why he prefers the material poverty and spiritual richness of his African hospital to the well equipped European operating theatres serving spiritually impoverished societies with an overwhelming bureaucracy. The need for innovation and creativity is turned into a positive force.
