The Lassa Ward: One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases - Softcover

Donaldson, Dr. Ross

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312377010 ISBN 13: 9780312377014

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2010

Synopsis

Ross Donaldson was an idealistic young medical student who gave up his comfortable life in the States to venture into Sierra Leone, a country ravaged by fighting and plagued by conflict streaming across the border from neighboring Liberia. In a hospital ward with meager supplies, Ross is in a race against time to find a way to care for patients afflicted with Lassa fever, a deadly and highly contagious hemorrhagic illness similar to Ebola. Forced to confront his own fears, he stands alone to make life-and-death decisions in the face of a never-ending onslaught of the sick. Ultimately, he finds himself not only fighting for the lives of others but also for his own. The Lassa Ward is the memoir of a young man studying to be a physician, while making his way through a land where a battle against one of the world's deadliest diseases matches a struggle for human rights and decency.

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About the Author

Dr. Ross I. Donaldson, M.D., M.P.H., is a UCLA medical professor and works in one of L.A.'s main trauma centers. He is author of several medical textbooks, has been a humanitarian in some of the world's most dangerous places, and is host of Lifetime's Street Doctors. He is the author of The Lassa Ward. He lives in Venice Beach, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312377010
• ISBN 13: 9780312377014
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288