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Signs Of Life - To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor (Hardcover, Main)
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Discovery Miles 2 800
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Signs Of Life - To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor (Hardcover, Main)
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Loot Price R280
Discovery Miles 2 800
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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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