Tony Hiss

Long Road from Quito (eBook, ePUB)

Transforming Health Care in Rural Latin America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Long Road from Quito presents a fascinating portrait of David Gaus, an unlikely trailblazer with deep ties to the University of Notre Dame and an even more compelling postgraduate life. Gaus is co-founder, with his mentor Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., of Andean Health and Development (AHD), an organization dedicated to supporting health initiatives in South America. Tony Hiss traces the trajectory of Gaus's life from an accounting undergraduate to a medical doctor committed to bringing modern medicine to poor, rural communities in Ecuador. When he began his medical practice in 1996, the best strategy in these areas consisted of providing preventive measures combined with rudimentary clinical services. Gaus, however, realized he had to take on a much more sweeping approach to best serve sick people in the countryside, who would have to take a five-hour truck ride to Quito and the nearest hospital. He decided to bring the hospital to the patients. He has now done so twice, building two top-of-the-line hospitals in Pedro Vicente Maldonado and Santo Domingo, Ecuador. The hospitals, staffed only by Ecuadorians, train local doctors through a Family Medicine residency program, and are financially self-sustaining. His work with AHD is recognized as a model for the rest of Latin America, and AHD has grown into a major player in global health, frequently partnering with the World Health Organization and other international agencies. With a charming, conversational style that is a pleasure to read, Hiss shows how Gaus's vision and determination led to these accomplishments, in a story with equal parts interest for Notre Dame readers, health practitioners, medical anthropologists, Latin American students and scholars, and the general public.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780268105365
• Artikelnr.: 56800882

Autorenporträt

Tony Hiss, an author, lecturer, and consultant on restoring America's cities and landscapes, is the author of thirteen books, including The Experience of Place, The View from Alger's Window, and In Motion: The Experience of Travel. Hiss was a staff writer at the New Yorker for more than thirty years, and since then has been a visiting scholar at New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Rosa
2. "Can You Fix Her?"
3. Camino a la cura
4. A Beggar Sitting on a Bag of Gold
5. Transistor Radios
6. Panama Hats
7. The Honorable Chain
8. Lightning Bolts
9. Hospital Hesburgh
10. Where's Coco?
11. Transitions
12. Souvenir
13. Rosy Afterglow and Cold, Hard Dawn
14. Family Medicine
15. Father Ted
16. The Big Stuff
17. Beyond the Dome of Gloom
18. In an Ecuadorian Way
19. How to Be a Hospital
20. An Unremarkable Room
21. A Pair of Boots
22. Tell a Really Big Truth
23. Health in Ecuador - The Next Ten Years