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Signs of Life - To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor (Paperback, Main)
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Signs of Life - To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor (Paperback, Main)
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'A thoughtful exploration of humanity ... Fabes is great company
and makes riding bicycles seem like the best way to see and
understand the world' - Guardian They say that being a good doctor
boils down to just four things: Shut up, listen, know something,
care. The same could be said for life on the road, too. When
Stephen Fabes left his job as a junior doctor and set out to cycle
around the world, frontline medicine quickly faded from his mind.
Of more pressing concern were the daily challenges of life as an
unfit rider on an overloaded bike, helplessly in thrall to
pastries. But leaving medicine behind is not as easy as it seems.
As he roves continents, he finds people whose health has suffered
through exile, stigma or circumstance, and others, whose lives have
been saved through kindness and community. After encountering a
frozen body of a monk in the Himalayas, he is drawn ever more to
healthcare at the margins of the world, to crumbling sanitoriums
and refugee camps, to city dumps and war-torn hospital wards. And
as he learns the value of listening to lives - not just solving
diagnostic puzzles - Stephen challenges us to see care for the sick
as a duty born of our humanity, and our compassion.
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