Book ID: CBB001213245

Second Suns: Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives (2013)

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Relin, David Oliver (Author)


Random House


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: x + 415 pp.; ill.
Language: English

From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors---one from the United States, the other from Nepal---united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness. In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world's most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project, an organization they founded in 1995. Tabin was the high-achieving bad boy of Harvard Medical School, an accomplished mountain climber and adrenaline junkie as brilliant as he was unconventional. Ruit grew up in a remote Nepalese village, where he became intimately acquainted with the human costs of inadequate access to health care. Together they found their life's calling: tending to the afflicted people of the Himalayas, a vast mountainous region with an alarmingly high incidence of cataract blindness. Second Suns takes us from improvised plywood operating tables in villages without electricity or plumbing to state-of-the-art surgical centers at major American universities where these two driven men are restoring sight---and hope---to patients from around the world. With their revolutionary, inexpensive style of surgery, Tabin and Ruit have been able to cure tens of thousands---all for about twenty dollars per operation. David Oliver Relin brings the doctors' work to vivid life through poignant portraits of patients helped by the surgery, from old men who cannot walk treacherous mountain trails unaided to cataract-stricken children who have not seen their mothers' faces for years. With the dexterity of a master storyteller, Relin shows the profound emotional and practical impact that these operations have had on patients' lives. Second Suns is the moving, unforgettable story of how two men with a shared dream are changing the world, one pair of eyes at a time.

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Description On the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, ophthalmologists who work with isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project.


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Authors & Contributors
Lowther, David
H Bradford Hawley
Benjamin Linder
Yang, Anand A.
Lê, Quynh
Warwar, Ronald E.
Concepts
Medicine
Physicians; doctors
Eye diseases
Ophthalmology
Health care
Biographies
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
Nepal
Himalayan Mountains (Nepal)
United States
Tibet
India
South Asia
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