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Second suns : two doctors and their amazing quest to restore sight and save lives (edizione 2013)

di David Oliver Relin

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Biography & Autobiography. Medical. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML: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.
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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.
Praise for Second Suns

"As miracles go, it's hard to beat making the blind see. Yet that's exactly what the eye surgeon Dr. Geoffrey Tabin can do. He services poor people in the developing world who have developed cataracts??a clouding of the lens of the eye that is the world's leading cause of blindness. . . . Second Suns is a hopeful work, a profile of two doctors who have dedicated their lives to bringing light to those in darkness."??Time

"A compelling and inspiring book . . . Second Suns portrays heroic health care delivered under harrowing conditions: Ruit and his teams carry their equipment on multi-day treks up steep mountain trails, sometimes hiking at night with flashlights or head lamps, to reach settlements where they typically spend several days operating on hundreds of villagers in makeshift surgical theaters."??The Washington Post

"Second Suns should be required reading for anybody with an interest in humanitarian philanthropy??or, for that matter, a desire to feel a little better about the world."??Outside

"A detailed, heartfelt account of the work of [two] dedicated pioneers."??Kirkus Reviews
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Titolo:Second suns : two doctors and their amazing quest to restore sight and save lives
Autori:David Oliver Relin
Info:Sydney, NSW : Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Lltd, 2013.
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Now in paperback: a #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s gripping chronicle of “two doctors . . . bringing light to those in darkness” (Time) The publisher will donate a portion of its proceeds on the sale of this book to the Himalayan Cataract Project. Second Suns is the unforgettable true story of two very different doctors with a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness. Dr. Geoffrey Tabin was the high-achieving “bad boy” of his class at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sanduk Ruit grew up in a remote village in the Himalayas, where cataract blindness—easily curable in modern hospitals—amounts to an epidemic. Together, they pioneered a new surgical method, by which they have restored sight to over 100,000 people—all for about $20 per operation. Master storyteller David Oliver Relin brings the doctors’ work to vivid life through poignant portraits of their patients, from old men who can once again walk treacherous mountain trails, to children who can finally see their mothers’ faces. The Himalayan Cataract Project is changing the world—one pair of eyes at a time.
  DSH-M-Library | Jan 4, 2023 |
So amazing. I loved all the numbers. RMC ( )
  Wanda-Gambling | May 9, 2020 |
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I received this book through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers Program quite a while ago. This book was excellent and I'm so glad that I finally read it. It manages to combine two of my favorite genres, hiking/mountain climbing books and books about inspiring medical/community service work. I'd describe this book as Into Thin Air meets Mountains Beyond Mountains. This book tells the story of two doctors who develop a (relatively) simple, straightforward, and portable method for repairing cataracts. They then proceed to take skills and supplies to where they're needed most, even if this involves dirt roads and strenuous hiking. It's inspiring to see how one great idea can start from nothing and be scaled up to the point that it changes thousands of lives for the better. The storyteller himself is engaging and despite being a fairly long read, I was intrigued throughout the entire thing. ( )
  ahegge | Jul 25, 2016 |
Recommend. Great narrator (audiobook). If this book had been about Sanduk Ruit only, I think I'd have given it 4-stars... from a hard childhood and sad sibling deaths this boy Sanduk figures out his goal in life is to rid countries of unnecessary blindness - the rest of the story shows a slightly overbearing but single-minded adventure in making this goal come true. Awesome, though it's kinda hard to read about his rigidness. Anyway, unfortunately there's another person involved, Captain America... oh, wait, I mean... Geoffrey Tabin, who just makes me embarrassed to be an American... a condensed caricature of insufferable american privilege, the fawning, gushing, adulation from the author is cringe-worthy. It's really really hard to read and the gushing goes on seemingly for-ever... why, smart-as-Einstein Mr Tabin does magic tricks for little kids while rescuing common peasants and leaping over buildings in his tennis shorts (ah, but wait, his shorts are wrinkled... how unconventional he is!). Anyway, if you can get through that then this book really is quite incredible - makes me want to learn more about the project (which I'm sure is the idea). ( )
  marshapetry | Sep 23, 2015 |
what an amazing and inspiring book this was - a non-fiction account of two ophthalmologists, doctor sanduk ruit, a nepalese physician who developed and perfected a quick and inexpensive surgery that revolutionized the curing of preventable blindness in parts of the developing world, and american doctor geoffrey tabin, hyperactive mountain climber and graduate of harvard who joined with dr. ruit to create the himmalayan cataract project.

the story of these two brilliant and compassionate men and their histories and work was eloquently presented by david oliver relin who spent significant time with them, even helping at the clinic with non-medical tasks and accompanying them on mountain climbs, joining them at their homes and in nepal and rwanda -

i am so glad to have learned of these men and their work and was sad to learn that the author passed away before this was published as he blessed the world with a beautiful book - ( )
  njinthesun | Jan 25, 2015 |
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Biography & Autobiography. Medical. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML: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.
Praise for Second Suns

"As miracles go, it's hard to beat making the blind see. Yet that's exactly what the eye surgeon Dr. Geoffrey Tabin can do. He services poor people in the developing world who have developed cataracts??a clouding of the lens of the eye that is the world's leading cause of blindness. . . . Second Suns is a hopeful work, a profile of two doctors who have dedicated their lives to bringing light to those in darkness."??Time

"A compelling and inspiring book . . . Second Suns portrays heroic health care delivered under harrowing conditions: Ruit and his teams carry their equipment on multi-day treks up steep mountain trails, sometimes hiking at night with flashlights or head lamps, to reach settlements where they typically spend several days operating on hundreds of villagers in makeshift surgical theaters."??The Washington Post

"Second Suns should be required reading for anybody with an interest in humanitarian philanthropy??or, for that matter, a desire to feel a little better about the world."??Outside

"A detailed, heartfelt account of the work of [two] dedicated pioneers."??Kirkus Reviews

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