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Australian missionaries Dr Catherine Hamlin and her husband Reg pioneered surgery for the condition called fistula - an injury incurred during obstructed labour resulting in uncontrollable incontinence. Surgeons from all over the world have come to Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital to learn these techniques. Catherine Hamlin is still operating though now in her late eighties. Many of the nurses - and some of the surgeons - now working first came to the hospital as patients, then stayed on to recuperate and picked up skills as they lent a hand. The book is full of stories interspersed with accounts of the dedicated and painstaking techniques that had to be devised for the undernourished, small-boned patients who come in a steady stream to their doors. Behind all this is the figure of Catherine, described by the 'New York Times' as 'the new Mother Teresa of our age'.
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John Little is a professional writer and film-maker, who worked for 30 years in television current affairs.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the second book I have read about the amazing work that goes on at the Fistula Hospital- it is such an inspiration.
I am involved with health care links from the UK to Ethiopia and this book almost makes me jump on a plane and set up a new life over there!
I am involved with health care links from the UK to Ethiopia and this book almost makes me jump on a plane and set up a new life over there!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Dr. Hamlin 's Amazing Story
23 Nov 2010
Format:Paperback
Dr. Catherine Hamlin wrote a story that will touch your heart . . . and make you want to change the world as well! Her account of the plight of Ethiopian women with obstetrical fistula's is one that I will never forget. This book helps us realize how easy we have it in the first world . . . and how we are called to do something for those who have nothing!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Heart and soul healing book
16 Dec 2011
Format:Paperback
I'd heard about the fistula hospital in Ethiopia after I was diagnosed with a fistula from my own childbirth experience in North America. Because of where I live, I had to wait over a year for surgery to heal me and even then ended up traveling to another country to find my own healing for myself. People had told me to watch the movie about it, but I didn't think my own raw emotions could handle it. However, when I walked into a bookstore and glimpsed this book, something told me to pick it up and see what it was about. Sure enough, I began to cry as soon as I read the word "fistula". I bought the book that day and discovered that it included story after story of women with my plight. The author had somehow managed to understand and articulate the emotions women with obstetric fistulas go through. I find that incredible, especially because the author is a man. The further I read, the more my own heart was allowed to grieve and find hope and healing. By the end of the book, I was ready to go to Ethiopia and ask to mop up after the women waiting to be seen. Somehow, I wanted to offer them the same hope that I had found, not only through my surgical healing but also the healing I found in John Little's writing. This book is one that will stay on my library shelf and will be read more than once. I am so grateful it came into my life when it did.
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