What For Chop Today ? - Couverture souple

Haddock, Gail

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1903070074 ISBN 13 : 9781903070079

Editeur : TravellersEye, 2003

Synopsis

Long on ideals but short on surgical experience, Gail Haddock left behind the circumscribed life of a York GP for a remote hospital in Sierra Leone. What For Chop Today? banishes news images of an emaciated and helpless Africa and journeys into the soul of a people. It is a remarkable tale of the strength and resilience of a nation in the face poverty, exploitation and the threat of civil war. She has her fair share of nasty gastronomic surprises, hygiene hassles and culture shock, but miraculously her waistline does not get much smaller and the craving for chocolate, lack of flushing toilets and the enormity of the task ahead do not succeed in driving her home. Somewhere along the way her flippancy and cynicism give way to real commitment, as she sees some of the best that human nature has to offer. She ends up defying the closure of her hospital and casting the threat of rebel invasions to the wind to return to the institution and people that provide a vital lifeline in one of the most under-privileged regions of the world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gail Haddock spent her early years as an Air Force daughter in England, moving to Scotland after her father crashed his plane into a stray water buffalo. She went to medical school in Edinburgh where she indulged in squash and eating chocolate. After graduating she opted for the life of a GP and set up shop in York. But it wasn't long before she was dreaming about life beyond her cosy back street surgery. VSO sent her to Sierra Leone where she spent two and a half enormously eventful years. She eventually returned to York with her moans about the NHS curbed and her life enriched from having experienced a culture so different from her own. Whether or not it helped her find her man or not, we will never know, but she now lives in relative bliss with her husband and two small children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: TravellersEye
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1903070074
• ISBN 13: 9781903070079
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible