La doctora : the journal of an American doctor practicing medicine on the Amazon River / Linnea Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Linnea.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicians--Amazon River Region--Biography.

Physicians.

Tropical medicine--Amazon River Region--Anecdotes.

Tropical medicine.

Indians of South America--Medical care--Amazon River Region--Anecdotes.

Indians of South America.

Smith, Linnea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Duluth, Minn. : Pfeifer-Hamilton Publishers, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1990, Dr. Linnea Smith went to Peru on an ecotourism vacation. She was so moved that she abandoned her thriving medical practice in Wisconsin to serve the Yagua Indians in the deepest part of the Amazon rainforest of Peru--alone.Taken straight from the pages of Dr. Smith's journal, La Doctora offers readers a rare glimpse into the suspense and drama of practicing medicine in a culture far removed from the sophisticated supplies and supports of 20th-century medicine. Learn how Dr. Smith evolved from a "strange white woman" to an adopted member of the indigenous community. Her story of advent

Contents:

Table of Contents; 1 ""My Wife Can't Have Her Baby!""; Leap into the Unknown; Life on the Amazon; Jungle Doctor; Clinic Expansion; More Jungle Medicine; The End of the Beginning

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8166-9540-7

OCLC:

476096479