Send Forth The Healing Sun
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (662 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1443424498 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Entertaining and informative I enjoyed this book very much. Great story and Tony Bartelme tells it with such detail. Highly recommended.. "A story of teaching brain surgery in a remote rural Tanzanian village tells a story that is personal, and global" according to Antigone Barton. When nearly 10 years after the development of medicines that turned HIV from a sentence of death to a chronic manageable illness, talk in wealthy nations finally turned to sharing the bounty and making the medicine more widely available on the continent hardest hit by the epidemic, a bizarre and racist argument against doing that had it that Africans couldn’t manage the then more complicated regimen because they didn’t wear wristwatches. Or something like that. In the time since, the fact that people everywhere s. MH said Read this Book!!. Send Forth the Healing Sun is already my favorite book of the summer. It's a page-turner that describes a doctor's move to teach brain surgery in a very remote area of Africa. It's also an inspiring love story. A must-read for "Read this Book!!" according to MH. Send Forth the Healing Sun is already my favorite book of the summer. It's a page-turner that describes a doctor's move to teach brain surgery in a very remote area of Africa. It's also an inspiring love story. A must-read for 2016!. 016!
In Latin, the word for doctor isn’t healer—it’s teacher.Dilan Ellegala, an accomplished American neurosurgeon, had reached the highest rungs of the American medical establishment but was on the verge of burning out. Tanzania has just two doctors for every 100,000 people and three neurosurgeons in a country with a population of 43 million—a lack of access to health care that is so extreme, it’s difficult to imagine. Dilan began training him to perform brain surgery procedures, giving him the tools to become an agent of change in his own country.Today, what began as one doctor teaching another has become the NGO Madaktari (Swahili for “doctors”) that has grown into a group that sends hundreds of doctors around the world to serve as mentors and to create a sustainable new model for global health based on Dilan’s “train-forward” philosophy. Send Forth the Healing Sun is the incredible and inspiring story of one man’s pioneering journey that is changing medicine and making a difference around the world.. After meeting Emmanuel Mayegga, an assistant medical officer who grew up in a tiny mud hut, Dilan realized that M
About the AuthorTONY BARTELME is the senior projects reporter for The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. In 2011, Bartelme was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his series of articles which is the basis for Send Forth the Healing Sun.. A Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2011, he has also been the recipient of the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award, the Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing, and an Associated Press Managing Editors Award
Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing, and an Associated Press Managing Editors Award. TONY BARTELME is the senior projects reporter for The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. In 2011, Bartelme was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his series of articles which is the basis for Send Forth the Healing Sun.. A Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2011, he has also been t