Mission to Heal: Sharing Medical Knowledge at Africa's Pole of Inaccessibility
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (923 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1626340285 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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. He is a Fulbright Scholar, past president of the Washington Academy of Surgeons, an inductee of the Academie de Chirurgie de Paris, 2005 recipient of the Medical Mission Hall of Fame Award, 2006 recipient of the George Washington University Medical Center's Faculty Distinguished Service Award, 2009 recipient of the American College of Surgeons' Volunteerism Award for International Outreach, and 2013 recipient of the University of Michigan Medical Center Alumni Society's Distinguished Service Award. He holds advanced degrees in international affairs, philosophy, anthropology, epidemiology, tropical medicine, and executive leadership in education, has run more than one hundred thirty marathons, and each year spends many months in remote corners of the globe on medical missions to treat the poorest populations on earth. Geelhoed is the founder of Mission to Heal, an organization that sends medical practitioners and students to places of great ne
This is especially true in the Central African Republic, where the so-called government provides no security and no infrastructure. Glenn Geelhoed has the right to make wrenching life-and-death decisions about the impoverished people he treats. Day by day, Glenn and his teams operate without electricity, with limited supplies, often with only local anesthesia. Yet Glenn tells a different story--sometimes tragic, but frequently funny and often hopeful. Simply, where he travels, there is no one else to make them. Teaching and healing in a remote and precarious land Some might ask why Dr. This is a tale of Western and indigenous caregivers operating side-by-side on the fringes of surgical civilization. Their patients are stoic, and the supporting caregivers are resourceful and generous in the extreme. Many believe that the Zande and Mbororo people in this region, very near t
He is a Fulbright Scholar, past president of the Washington Academy of Surgeons, an inductee of the Academie de Chirurgie de Paris, 2005 recipient of the Medical Mission Hall of Fame Award, 2006 recipient of the George Washington University Medical Center's Faculty Distinguished Service Award, 2009 recipient of the American College of Surgeons' Volunteerism Award for International Outreach, and 2013 reci
An emotional journey back to the Pole of Inaccessability MaryB I bought this book because I am an avid supporter of the Mission 2 Heal mission. Dr. G. Geelhoed is an amazing person that I had the privilege to travel to Africa with. I was on this trip and learned a lot about myself and the world outside my own. This book is an honest representation of the commitment to the bottom 2% of the world's economic people Dr. G has vowed to help. I will never forget my time in Africa and the life changing. Giving back to the world Only once in a generation, comes a person that sees the world from his heart. Dr Geelhoed is a highly trained physician who left the modern ways of medicine, and took his knowledge to the far ends on the earth to save lives that need to be helped to live again.He takes medical students with him to show what can be done in the way of learning and giving hope to those in the far reaches of the world.The indigenous peoples are shown wha. Striking and heartfelt - a look at a world we otherwise wouldn't see Nreads21 Few people may ever journey to CAR in their lives - or another location this rural. After decades of work in CAR and with the people there, Geelhoed opens the window to a world of beauty, struggle, strength and healing that I never knew existed. There's an urgency to the situation in CAR and the work of Mission to Heal that everyone needs to be aware of. An anthropological book laden with human story and the importance of learning an