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One life at a time - A doctor's memoir of AIDS in Botswana (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 200
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One life at a time - A doctor's memoir of AIDS in Botswana (Paperback)
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Price R320
Discovery Miles 3 200
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When Daniel Baxter, the medical director of a large community
health centre in New York City, accepted an invitation to work in
Botswana, he hardly knew where to find the country on a map. Yet he
set out nonetheless, naively confident that he would do good by
bringing his first-world expertise to help in the roll-out of
Africa's first HIV/AIDS treatment programme. But Baxter's good
intentions were quickly overwhelmed by the reality of AIDS in
Africa, his misguided altruism engulfed by the sea of need around
him. Lifted up by Botswana's remarkable and forgiving people and by
the country's majestic beauty, Baxter soldiered on. His memorable
encounters with those living with HIV/AIDS - their unfathomable
woes assuaged by their oft-repeated declaration ''But God is
good!'' - profoundly changed the way he thought about himself and
his role as a doctor. Eight years later, when Baxter finally left
Africa to return to the United States, he realised he was not so
much the giver as the recipient of a great human gift. Compelling,
humorous, courageous and often heart-breaking, One Life at a Time
documents the extraordinary experiences of a fallible but
compassionate doctor working at the front line of HIV/AIDS care in
Botswana.
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