The Lassa Ward. One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases
Donaldson, Dr. Ross I.
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Stated first edition, with full number line, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE 'Warmest Regards Ross'. Minor edge wear and some creasing to top of jacket and spine, not price clipped ($24.95), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall in vg++ condition. 270pp. The story of a medical student, alone in a hospital ward except for very sick patients, some about to die with blood flooding from every body orifice. What do you do? Well if your name is Ross Donaldson, you pray and do the best you can. He was thousands of miles away from his home and the comfort and high technology of hospitals of California where some patients have up to 20 doctors each to take care of every need. In the steamy heat and the poverty of what was once known as "The White Man's Grave" - the one time slave nation of Sierra Leone - death from Lassa Fever is endemic, babies, children, mothers, fathers but not many grandparents for they do not live long enough. There is seldom enough medicine to treat the victims in the somewhat ramshackle hospital of Kemona, four hours drive from the capital, Freetown. Often medical staff buy vital drugs from market traders. Donaldson was in Kemona for three months and was struck down when he returned to Los Angeles, not by Lassa but, as it turned out myocarditis, a condition that causes the immune system to attack the heart. It took him six months to recover. Now he is a trauma professor of medicine. A remarkable memoir. Seller Inventory # 001688
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Title: The Lassa Ward. One Man's Fight Against One ...
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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