La Doctora : An American Doctor in the Amazon.
Title:
La Doctora : An American Doctor in the Amazon.
Author:
Linnea Smith, M.D.
ISBN:
9780816695409
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (266 pages)
Contents:
Table of Contents -- 1 "My Wife Can't Have Her Baby!" -- Leap into the Unknown -- 2 My Last Vacation -- 3 Setting Up Shop -- 4 Jungle Medicine -- 5 Indiana -- Life on the Amazon -- 6 Life Along the Stream -- 7 Life Outside the Clinic -- 8 Red Tape -- 9 Fiesta -- Jungle Doctor -- 10 Culture Clash -- 11 Necrotizing Fasciitis -- 12 Tropical Diseases -- 13 More Learning -- Clinic Expansion -- 14 Rotary Rescue -- 15 Juvencio -- 16 Building the Clinic -- More Jungle Medicine -- 17 Trauma -- 18 Childbirth -- 19 Snakebites -- 20 Failures and Reflections -- The End of the Beginning -- 21 Coming of Age -- 22 What Am I Doing Here?.
Abstract:
In 1990, Dr. Linnea Smith went to Peru on an ecotourism vacation. She was so moved that she abandoned her thriving medical practice in Wisconsin to serve the Yagua Indians in the deepest part of the Amazon rainforest of Peru--alone.Taken straight from the pages of Dr. Smith's journal, La Doctora offers readers a rare glimpse into the suspense and drama of practicing medicine in a culture far removed from the sophisticated supplies and supports of 20th-century medicine. Learn how Dr. Smith evolved from a "strange white woman" to an adopted member of the indigenous community. Her story of adventure, self-discovery and service creates inspiring testimony to one person's power to make a lasting difference.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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