Gifts from the poor
Subtitle: what the world's patients taught one doctor about healing
By: Glenn W. Geelhoed with Patricia Edmonds
Contributors: Edmonds, Patricia
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Austin, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781608320943
Subjects: Religious Missions; Physicians; Medical Missionaries; Medical Missions; Official Medical Missions; Biography
Description: For more than four decades, surgeon and education Geelhoed has taken medical missions to the poorest parts of the globe. He discovered the power and dignity of each individual-- and the true mechanics of foreign medical aid and development. Now he advocates game-changing alternatives to the status quo.
Table of contents: title: This little light of mine; title: One small room in a giant mansion; title: Imagination and organization; title: Beyond "medical center civilization"; title: "Just keep operating and learning"; title: Around barriers and over bridges; title: Riding more than one horse; title: The year of Fulbrightness; title: The gift of deprivation; title: From suffering, the gift of strength; title: Cultures, constants and vowels; title: Bricking up the leper door; title: The hunter-gatherer and the runner; title: Humility in health care; title: Hither by thy help; title: Transformation; title: Giving back; title: Derwood.