Well - Healing Our Beautiful, Broken World from a Hospital in West Africa

Informationen zum Autor Sarah Thebarge is an international speaker and the author of The Invisible Girls, named a World Magazine 2013 Notable Book. Sarah earned her physician assistant degree at Yale and was studying journalism at Columbia when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In spite of nearly losing her life to cancer, she went on to care for refugees in the United States and provide medical care to people living in the developing world. In addition to practicing medicine in Togo, she served in the Dominican Republic and started a clinic in Kenya for children who lost their parents to AIDS. Sarah is a spokesperson for Compassion International. She returns to San Francisco when she is not traveling the world. Klappentext After more than a decade of practicing medicine and encountering the medical world herself as a cancer patient, the author optimistically raised funds to serve without pay in a missions hospital. Her story demonstrates what it means to truly become a follower of Jesus: to use faith to change oneself and thereby heal the world. Sarah Thebarge ponders the intersection of faith and medicine in this insightful narrative of her medical mission trip to Togo, West Africa. Zusammenfassung Sarah Thebarge ponders the intersection of faith and medicine in this insightful narrative of her medical mission trip to Togo, West Africa.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Thebarge
• Publisher: Faithwords
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781455553198
• ISBN: 978-1-4555-5319-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, MEDICAL / Physician & Patient, MEDICAL / Critical Care, MEDICAL / Terminal Care, Christian life & practice, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients), Christian life and practice, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Biography: science, technology and medicine