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Bridge Ahead
A Medical Memoir by Keith Dahlberg
A doctor's professional and spiritual journey as an American Baptist medical missionary in Southeast Asia, and family practitioner in an Idaho mining town. Medicine's technical equipment varies with time and place, but the basic requirements are the same: unless the doctor is competent in skill, and caring in manner, the diploma on the wall loses credibility.
The Struggle to develop those traits begins long before medical school, and continues throughout life. This is a story of that struggle, from childhood education through
medical school and on to first job as a doctor in the opium-growing region of the Burmese Shan States.
Dahlberg's career encompassed three hospitals on the Burma/Thai border among conditions rarely even imagined in America, including the Cambodian genocide, the hill-tribe refugees from Burma, and teaching village health workers in the Kachin State when the Burmese military government had closed the medical schools in 1998.His medical work in the USA included responding to the historic Sunshine Mine fire, and supply doctor in nine U.S. states. This is a story for every medical student, and for every citizen who suspects something is lacking in modern American medicine.
published by iUniverse 288 pages with illustrations, soft cover list price $19.95
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ISBN 978-0-595-49258-9
also available in e-book format from iUniverse
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