Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Life and Death Decisions

Lachlan McIver
4.17/5 (294 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
I found Dad dead on the side of a dirt road. I was sixteen; he was forty-nine.

After Lachlan McIver’s father suffers a sudden, fatal heart attack it sends him into a spiral of grief and outrage. This tragedy inspires him to become a doctor and he eventually finds his calling – providing care for communities in some of the most remote and neglected parts of the world.

In this no-holds-barred memoir, Lachlan recounts his experiences treating patients and tackling health problems across dozens of countries, from rural communities around Australia and the islands of the South Pacific, through natural disasters and civil war zones, to the headquarters of the World Health Organization and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in Switzerland.

Lachlan is forced to confront not only the frustrations of trying to provide medical care in extremely under-resourced environments, but broader crises such as health inequities, climate change and drug-resistant infections. He also faces his own personal battles, including with depression, alcohol abuse and bankruptcy.

This is a deeply human look at the personal cost of our broken global health system, and how we must work together to change it for the better. It’s what we need right now.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Ultimo Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1761150782
ISBN13:
9781761150784
kindle Asin:
B09VRQ1KWF

Life and Death Decisions

Lachlan McIver
4.17/5 (294 ratings)
Read Download
I found Dad dead on the side of a dirt road. I was sixteen; he was forty-nine.

After Lachlan McIver’s father suffers a sudden, fatal heart attack it sends him into a spiral of grief and outrage. This tragedy inspires him to become a doctor and he eventually finds his calling – providing care for communities in some of the most remote and neglected parts of the world.

In this no-holds-barred memoir, Lachlan recounts his experiences treating patients and tackling health problems across dozens of countries, from rural communities around Australia and the islands of the South Pacific, through natural disasters and civil war zones, to the headquarters of the World Health Organization and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in Switzerland.

Lachlan is forced to confront not only the frustrations of trying to provide medical care in extremely under-resourced environments, but broader crises such as health inequities, climate change and drug-resistant infections. He also faces his own personal battles, including with depression, alcohol abuse and bankruptcy.

This is a deeply human look at the personal cost of our broken global health system, and how we must work together to change it for the better. It’s what we need right now.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Ultimo Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1761150782
ISBN13:
9781761150784
kindle Asin:
B09VRQ1KWF

More Books

Put your Feet in the Dirt, Girl

Sonia Henry

You Called an Ambulance for What?

Tim Booth

Runt

Craig Silvey

The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

Grace Tame

Sister Viv

Grantlee Kieza

Everyone and Everything

Nadine J. Cohen

Cut

Susan White

The Burrow

Melanie Cheng

The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare

Ben Bravery

The Voice Inside

John Farnham

The Combat Doctor: A story of battlefield medicine and resilience

Dan Pronk

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran