By David Oliver Relin
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring tale of 2 very diverse doctors—one from the USA, the opposite from Nepal—united in a standard venture: to rid the area of preventable blindness.
In this transporting booklet, David Oliver Relin shines a mild at the paintings of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, proficient ophthalmologists who've devoted their lives to restoring sight to a couple of the world’s such a lot remoted, impoverished humans throughout the Himalayan Cataract venture, a company they based in 1995. Tabin was once the high-achieving undesirable boy of Harvard clinical institution, an complete mountain climber and adrenaline junkie as fabulous as he was once unconventional. Ruit grew up in a distant Nepalese village, the place he grew to become in detail conversant in the human charges of insufficient entry to overall healthiness care. jointly they discovered their life’s calling: tending to the bothered humans of the Himalayas, an unlimited mountainous quarter with an alarmingly excessive occurrence of cataract blindness.
Second Suns takes us from improvised plywood working tables in villages with no electrical energy or plumbing to cutting-edge surgical facilities at significant American universities the place those pushed males are restoring sight—and hope—to sufferers from worldwide. With their progressive, reasonably cheap form of surgical procedure, Tabin and Ruit were capable of remedy tens of thousands—all for roughly twenty money in step with operation. David Oliver Relin brings the doctors’ paintings to brilliant existence via poignant graphics of sufferers helped by way of the surgical procedure, from outdated males who can't stroll treacherous mountain trails unaided to cataract-stricken little ones who've no longer obvious their mothers’ faces for years. With the dexterity of a grasp storyteller, Relin indicates the profound emotional and functional influence that those operations have had on patients’ lives.
Second Suns is the relocating, unforgettable tale of ways males with a shared dream are altering the area, one pair of eyes at a time.
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