When your Dad can crash his aeroplane into two water buffalo, life is unlikely to go according to plan. Even so, Emily Joy puts on her rose-tinted specs, leaves behind her comfortable life as a GP in York and heads off for two years to a remote hospital in Sierra Leone. There she finds the oranges are green, the bananas are black and her patients are, well, really ill. There's no water, no electricity, no oxygen, no amputation saw and Dr. Em is no surgeon. And there's no chocolate to treat her nasty case of unrequited love. Then the rebels invade! Dr. Em's problems are tiny compared to those faced by the people of Sierra Leone. If they can remain so optimistic, then what's Em's excuse? Our green doctor is a bit of a yellow-belly, often red-faced, trying to fight the blues. But green oranges give sweet orange juice. Never judge a fruit by its colour.
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'I found this book inspirational' British Medical Journal 'Very down to earth, very funny, very human.' Yorkshire Evening Post 'A fine book which sets our selfish Western concerns alongside the grim reality of life in Africa.' Aberdeen Journal
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Höhe: 192 mm
Breite: 128 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
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978-1-903070-29-1 (9781903070291)
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Emily spent her early years as an airforce 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.
