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Into Africa, Out of Academia

A Doctor's Memoir

By: Kwan Kew Lai

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In 2006, Kwan Kew Lai left her full-time position as a professor in the United States to provide medical humanitarian aid to the remote villages and the war-torn areas of Africa. This memoir follows her experiences from 2006 to 2013 as she provided care during the HIV/AIDs epidemics, after natural disasters, and as a relief doctor in refugee camps in Kenya, Libya, Uganda and in South Sudan, where civil war virtually wiped out all existing healthcare facilities. Throughout her memoir, Lai recounts intimate encounters with refugees and internally displaced people in camps and in hospitals with limited resources, telling tales of their resilience, unflinching courage, and survival through extreme hardship. Her writing provides insight into communities and transports readers to heart-achingly beautiful parts of Africa not frequented by the usual travelers. This is a deeply personal account of the huge disparities in the healthcare system of our "global village" and is a call to action for readers to understand the interconnectedness of the modern world, the needs of less developed neighbors, and the shortcomings of their healthcare systems.

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McFarland

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147667972X

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Lest We Forget

A Doctor's Experience with Life and Death During the Ebola Outbreak

By: Kwan Kew Lai

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Lest We Forget

A Doctor's Experience with Life and Death During the Ebola Outbreak

By: Kwan Kew Lai

In 2014 after fighting through yards of bureaucratic red tape, leaving her family, and putting her own health at risk in order to help suffering strangers, Kwan Kew Lai finally arrived in Africa to volunteer as an infectious disease specialist in the heart of the largest Ebola outbreak in history. What she found was not only blistering heat, inadequate working conditions, and deadly, unrelenting illness, but hope, resilience, and incredible courage. Lest We Forget chronicles the harrowing and inspiring time spent serving on the front lines of the ongoing Ebola outbreak--the complicated personal protective equipment, the chlorine-scented air, the tropical heat, and the heartbreaking difficulties of treating patients she could not touch. Dr. Lai interweaves original diary entries to create a gripping narrative about life, death, and human relationships that will leave no reader unmoved. This book exposes the raw brutality of Ebola, as well as the chaotic nature of the undersupplied and understaffed health infrastructure in the developing world. At once a memoir of triumphs and failures and a memorial, this book will ensure that the victims of Ebola and the fighters who sought to heal them will not be forgotten.

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1632280620

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The Girl Who Taught Herself to Fly

By: Kwan Kew Lai

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The Girl Who Taught Herself to Fly

By: Kwan Kew Lai

Kwan Kew Lai met her first Punjabi woman doctor while lying in a hospital bed at the age of fourteen. Watching the woman walk away down the hall, Kwan Kew was convinced she could, and would, carve out her own destiny.

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Vine Leaves Press

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6188600286

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Into Africa, Out of Academia

A Doctor's Memoir

By: Kwan Kew Lai

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A Doctor's Memoir

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Lest We Forget

A Doctor's Experience with Life and Death During the Ebola Outbreak

By: Kwan Kew Lai

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Lest We Forget

A Doctor's Experience with Life and Death During the Ebola Outbreak

By: Kwan Kew Lai

In 2014 after fighting through yards of bureaucratic red tape, leaving her family, and putting her own health at risk in order to help suffering strangers, Kwan Kew Lai finally arrived in Africa to volunteer as an infectious disease specialist in the heart of the largest Ebola outbreak in history. What she found was not only blistering heat, inhospitable working conditions, and deadly, unrelenting illness, but hope, resilience, and incredible courage. Lest We Forget chronicles the harrowing and inspiring time spent serving on the front lines of the ongoing Ebola outbreak—the complicated Personal Protective Equipment, the chlorine-scented air, the tropical heat, and the heartbreaking difficulties of treating patients she could not touch. Dr. Lai interweaves original diary entries to create a gripping narrative about life, death, and human relationships that will leave no reader unmoved. Lest We Forget exposes the raw brutality of Ebola, as well as the chaotic nature of the undersupplied and understaffed health infrastructure in the developing world. At once a memoir of triumphs and failures and a memorial, this book will ensure that the victims of Ebola and the fighters who sought to heal them will not be forgotten.

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Simon and Schuster

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1632280639

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Into Africa, Out of Academia

Into Africa, Out of Academia

Lest We Forget

Lest We Forget

The Girl Who Taught Herself to Fly

The Girl Who Taught Herself to Fly

Into Africa, Out of Academia

Into Africa, Out of Academia

Lest We Forget

Lest We Forget

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