Dr. Stephen Buskin (English, Dutch, Afrikaans)
Stephen Buskin was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. He completed his medical university training at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1992. His early years as a doctor in South Africa took him to Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, renowned for the first heart transplant. He completed diplomas in child health and primary emergency care in 1994-5 at the College of Medicine in South Africa. He started paediatric training in South Africa and completed it in the Sheba Medical Centre in Tel Aviv, Israel. While becoming recognized for Paediatrics in both Israel and South Africa, Stephen also trained as a classic homeopath. After meeting his Dutch wife, he moved to the Netherlands, and together with her, started a homeopathy practice combined with work in the hospital system. He worked a year at the AMC (Amsterdam) and thereafter in various hospitals in England, Scotland and in the Netherlands, from Brabant to North Holland. He has two young children, Ella and Sam, and an Israeli street dog, Chagi.
Areas of practice and expertise: acute Paediatrics; neonatal follow-up; allergies; gastroenterology; eczema; complimentary and alternative medicine - namely homeopathy
Goals: to put the best interests of the child first and foremost; to make it possible for a child to reach his or her full potential; to provide the best and most up-to-date medical evidence regarding treatment: to combine conventional medical practice with complimentary and alternative medicine giving children the best of both worlds