Kwan Kew Lai

The Girl Who Taught Herself to Fly

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Produktbeschreibung

Kwan Kew Lai met her first Punjabi woman doctor while lying in a hospital bed at the age of fourteen. Watching the woman walk away down the hall, Kwan Kew was convinced she could, and would, carve out her own destiny.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vine Leaves Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 136mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9786188600287
• ISBN-10: 6188600286
• Artikelnr.: 64706046

Autorenporträt

Originally from Penang, Malaysia, Kwan Kew Lai received a full scholarship from Wellesley College. She is a Harvard Medical Faculty Physician. In 2005, she left academia to dedicate time to humanitarian work; in HIV/AIDS in Africa, and she provides disaster relief all over the world, such as during the Ebola outbreak, the Syrian Rohingya refugee crises, and the COVID-19 pandemic in New York and the Navajo Nation. Her debut, Lest We Forget: A Doctor's Experience with Life and Death During the Ebola Outbreak, chronicles her time in Liberia and Sierra Leone caring for Ebola patients. Into Africa, Out of Academia: A Doctor's Memoir came out October, 2020. Visit: kwankewlai.com