Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2010-01-01
Publisher: Beacon Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0807073202
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Medicine in Translation pdf
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For two decades, Dr. Danielle Ofri has cared for patients at Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in the country and a crossroads for the world's cultures. In Medicine in Translation, she introduces us, in vivid, moving portraits, to the patients she has known. They have braved language barriers, religious and racial divides, and the emotional and practical difficulties of exile in order to access quality health care. Sharing their journeys with them over the years, Danielle has witnessed some of their best and worst moments, and come to admire their resilience and courageous spirit.
Danielle introduces us to her patients: Samuel Nwanko, who was brutally attacked by a Nigerian cult in his homeland and is attempting to create a new life in America; Jade Collier, an Aussie who refuses to let a small thing like a wheelchair keep her from being a homegrown ambassador to New York City; Julia Barquero, a Guatemalan woman who migrated to the States to save her disabled son but cannot o Download Medicine in Translation for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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