Never Question the Miracle
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: February 24, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780345407238
Subjects: Surgery; Women In Science; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Cultural Heritage; Women; Biography & Autobiography / Medical; Medical - General; African American women surgeon; African American women surgeons; Biography; Haiti; Surgeons; Toussaint, Rose-Marie; United States
Description: Dr. Rose-Marie Toussaint shares her experiences, including the prediction of a voodoo priest that she would become a physician, her parents chaotic marriage, the family's emigration from Haiti to Miami, her refuge in math and science classes, getting into college and medical school, being a black female in white male-dominated institutions, and finally becoming a surgeon specializing in liver and kidney transplants at a major university hospital.