
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 a story of that struggle, from childhood
education through medical school and on to first job as 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
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