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Journal Entry 1
Prologue 3
Part I Swept Away
1 Swept Away 9
2 The Rains 16
3 Your Deed Is Your History 22
4 Just Say No 28
5 Little Buddhas 33
6 Risky Business 41
7 The Measure of Things 47
Part II The Lassa Ward
8 First Fee 55
9 Dr. Conteh 61
10 The Lassa Ward 69
11 Technical Difficulties 76
12 God's Will 81
13 Friday Rituals 89
14 A Foreign Funeral 96
Part III Alone
15 An Unexpected Delivery 105
16 Scarcely Taller 112
17 Alone 117
18 Twenty-four Hours 125
19 Barely Medicine 133
20 In Deep 140
21 First, Do No Harm 146
22 A Visitor 154
23 Another Drop 161
Part IV Finally a Doctor
24 More Than Medicine 169
25 Borrowed Chips 177
26 Heal Thyself 185
27 Dots of Hope 190
28 A Tiny Miracle 197
29 The Growing Darkness 204
30 One Last Day 208
31 Finally a Doctor 213
Part V Last Rites
32 Seeds of Suffering 221
33 Soggy Footsteps 229
34 Part of Africa 236
35 Homecoming 241
36 A Familiar Face 246
37 Technologic Dreams 254
38 Last Rites 257
Epilogue 264
A Note from the Author 267
Acknowledgments 269
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Jonathan Wilkerson
reviewed The Lassa Ward: One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases on January 02, 2016
The Lassa Ward: One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases
Ross is a medical student from California who decides to go to Africa, to learn about the deadly Lassa Fever in a ward in Sierre Leone and write a paper about his experiences. Nothing there is as he expected. This book is more about his experience of the chasm between cultures and the completely different mind set of the people there. Of the polarity of medical care where there are no supplies for things he takes for granted. Such as the fact there is not even a breathing bag/mask and there is no way to even test for what they are treating. How even though health care is supposed to be free, health care workers refuse to treat those who cannot pay. How care workers do not understand the differences between viruses and bacteria or that different antibiotics treat different infections. He is unsure and frightened of making a mistake that costs someone their life.
The book is less about Lassa Fever and more about his own personal education of a system doing its best with no resources or support amidst political chaos.
After reading this book and against the aftermath of the recent Ebola epidemic, I have to wonder how little things have changed in over ten years.
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