Band-Aid for a Broken Leg
The followers of a blog that Australian doctor Damien Brown maintained while serving in Africa inspired him to start writing seriously following his last humanitarian assignment. He is the author of Band-Aid for a Broken Leg.
When he shows up for his first posting with Medecins Sans Frontieres in Africa, the young physician Damien Brown believes he is prepared. The hospital where he is to serve as the sole physician is full of malnourished children and other conditions he has never seen, and the health workers—Angolan war veterans twice his age who speak no English—walk out on him after an altercation on his first shift. Instead, the town he is sent to is a remote outpost of mud huts surrounded by landmines. Damien faces these difficulties over the coming months while also adjusting to the ludicrous social situations that come with having just three other volunteers for company.
The medical catastrophes mount—a leopard attack, a landmine explosion, and needing to conduct surgery with equipment cleaned on the fire—but Damien's enthusiasm for the job develops as his relationships with the locals deepen. This touching testimonial to the work done by medical humanitarian organizations and the exceptional and occasionally strange people who work for them details life on the medical frontlines in Angola, Mozambique, and South Sudan. It is a painful and honest narrative.
Author: Damien Brown
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Band-Aid-Broken-Leg-Doctor-Borders/dp/1743315562/
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