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Very good. 316, [4] pages. Illustrations. Signed by the author on the title page. Includes foreword by Dr. Ok Pannenborg; Introduction; Beginnings: Heileybury, Ontario, Canada, 1987; Endings: Papau New Guinea, Tanzania, Bhutan, and A Global Reflection; Acknowledgments; Appendix 1: A White Mud Letter to a Dear Friend; Appendix 2: Timeline of Missions; Appendix 3: Coda--Where Are We Now? Also includes Notes, Image Credits, and Index. Recounting medical missions in one-third of the forty-five countries in which she has worked for the past thirty years in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific, Dr. Gretchen Roedde shares the grim reality of world politics and bureaucratic red tape on the front lines as a doctor in mother-and-child health and HIV/AIDS. Remote communities in Canada often suffer from a lack medical resources, making illness and injury even more complicated and difficult than it would otherwise be. It's an issue that became a driving force in physician Gretchen Roedde's life. Witnessing the strength of northern communities as they rallied around those in need, she found ways to combine her expertise with those community efforts, in order to better healthcare outcomes for people in northern and remote areas of Ontario. Gretchen Roedde, assistant professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, has been a physician since 1978. Working with Indigenous and marginalized communities, she practices near Lake Temiskaming. She has also worked as a public health doctor in the developing world, specializing in mother-and-child health and HIV/AIDS. A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother and child health in the developing world. Recounting medical missions in half of the thirty countries in which she has worked for the past twenty-five years in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific-from Darfur in Sudan to Papua New Guinea and Bhutan-Dr. Gretchen Roedde shares the grim reality of world politics and bureaucratic red tape on the front lines as a doctor in mother-and-child health and HIV/AIDS. A Doctor's Quest tells the stories of the hopes of village women struggling to give birth safely, their often corrupt leaders, and countries trying to bring evil despots to justice. In this latest edition of A Doctor's Quest, she tells the stories of the hopes of village women struggling to give birth safely, their often corrupt leaders, and countries trying to bring evil despots to justice. The book analyzes the slow progress in global maternal health, contrasting the affluence of the few with the precarious hold on survival of the world's poorest, where economic realities force families to sell young girls into marriage at the age of thirteen to face higher risk of death from early child-bearing.
