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Medical Volunteer Abroad in Africa: Dr Charlotte Brits sole charge medical officer in bushland veldt. Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Do you know what it's like being a medical volunteer abroad? Ebola volunteers should read this book. Check the reality of volunteering to help people with medical services? Before you join Red Cross or Médecins Sans Frontières Doctors Without Borders (MSF) you should read this book. These are heart-warming, uplifting stories which show the fun, humor and resilience of the African bush people. When a young, white, female, freshly-graduated doctor went deep into the South African bush in the 1950s it was a real eye-opener. She had begun her fifty years of medical service with genuine adventures! Read how Dr Charlotte Brits adapted quickly from the textbook medical school treatments used in a prim British hospital to serving the African people of Transvaal, where she was the only doctor for 60 miles in any direction. “The back of my rattling old Ford van served as a mobile pharmacy and, when I dropped the tailboard, that became my operating table.” Here are 21 stories of hands-on medicine among the Afrikaners and the native Sotho tribes. They are all positive, uplifting accounts of her ingenuity, adaptability and inventiveness, backed by classic medical knowledge. She brought relief to almost everyone she treated. Often Jeyes Fluid (a favourite commercial steriliser used by janitors) was her strongest medicine. In addition to the usual human medical needs like stitching knife cuts or bullet wounds, delivering babies in total darkness, extracting teeth outdoors, being the doctor in a tropical rain-storm, she also dealt with the dangers from snakes, jackals, hyenas, leopards, wild warthogs and scorpions. Her patients never lived ordinary lives. In one of these stories: “Miss Allie had a large collection of snakes which had the run of the house. They were her protection system against police raids!" Chief Mahlangu insisted he buy her doctor’s van because it smelled strongly of disinfectant. “This doctor magic will protect me from my jealous wives when I bring home my next wife.” Read these heart-warming accounts of how a young doctor dealt with the many challenges not covered by standard medical training. Every doctor, pharmacist, dentist, veterinarian, mid-wife or volunteer will smile at the ingenious ways Dr Brits dealt with each day’s fresh crop of challenges. Her payment was sometimes a goat, a chicken or a bag of peaches. But always there were smiles of gratitude. Every story has humour, pathos and a lesson about our humanity that can only be learned from experience. Dr Brits' fifty years of doctoring produces a deep well from which to draw wisdom. You'll enjoy every story, especially if you have some link with the world of medicine, doctors, clinics or volunteers - local or living abroad.Here are stories to tell your grandchildren, your doctor, or guests at your next dinner party.

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Title: Medical Volunteer Abroad in Africa: Dr Charlotte Brits sole charge medical officer in bushland veldt. Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Author : Charlotte Brits, Brian Morris
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