Never Question the Miracle: A Surgeon's Story - Hardcover

Toussaint, Rose-Marie; Santaniello, Anthony E.

 
9780345407238: Never Question the Miracle: A Surgeon's Story
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0345407237 ISBN 13: 9780345407238
Verlag: One World, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

A glimpse into the life of a Haitian surgeon who specializes in liver and kidney transplants details the prediction from a voodoo priest that she would become a doctor, college life in America and medical school, her will to succeed, and the little miracles that have led her to become a notable physician of our time. Tour.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Rose-Marie Toussaint, M.D., earned her B.S. at Loyola University in New Orleans, and her M.D. at Howard University. She did her post-doctoral training in the surgery departments of Howard University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Wisconsin. She has been assistant professor of surgery at Howard University College of Medicine and associate director of the Howard University Hospital Transplant Center. She is now in private practice.

Anthony E. Santaniello has written and edited publications on nutrition, preventive medicine, the use of computer science in medicine, and general health issues. He has also worked as a producer, researcher, and writer of more than thirty medical films and video programs created for the medical profession.

Rose-Marie Toussaint has served as assistant professor of surgery at Howard University College of Medicine and associate director of the Howard University Hospital Transplant Center.

Aus dem Klappentext

ask, "How did you get here?" I know they are really asking, "How did you, female of color from Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, get here?"

Dr. Rose-Marie Toussaint is unique--a young black woman surgeon specializing in liver and kidney transplants at a major university hospital. How did she get there? In this amazing book Toussaint tells us. Her inspiring story starts when a vodun priest predicts she will grow up to be a physician, then chronicles her rise to the pinnacle of her profession.

Rose-Marie's family struggled not only with her parents' chaotic marriage, but with the seismic changes that were beginning to grip their homeland. When the Toussaints emigrated to Miami, Rose-Marie immersed herself in science and math classes, and her dream of becoming a doctor began to take shape.

But the road to her dream was littered with obstacles: getting into college, making good grades, getting into medical school, and survivin

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Verlag
One World
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0345407237
ISBN 13 
9780345407238
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
377
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