Beyond the Storm: Treating the Powerless & the Powerful in Mobutu's Congo/Zaire
by William T. Close
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Author: William T. CloseEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-01
ISBN: 0970337140
Number of pages: 343
Publisher: Meadowlark Springs Production
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Summary: 5 Stars
Great book. Dr. Close writes about his life as a young adult and eventually leads up to treating a massive amount of patients in what was quickly becoming one of the most troubled and corrupt countries in the world.
Summary of Beyond the Storm: Treating the Powerless & the Powerful in Mobutu's Congo/Zaire
The colonel's great-aunt sat cross-legged on the carpet with her mouth wide open. With a gnarled finger, she pointed down her throat. A fishbone peeked over the base of her tongue and was easily retrieved. The old woman and the colonel were delighted. The doctor was relieved. This episode was the first of many that led Dr. Bill Close toward becoming the physician and friend to many, including the colonel who became president and then dictator of the Congo.Beyond the Storm details Dr. Close's extraordinary experiences during the uncontrollable human storms that crashed repeatedly in the Congo after independence. In July of 1960 chaos erupted when Belgium turned over power to Patrice Lumumba, the first elected prime minister, but kept the keys to the nation's prodigious mineral wealth. Two men, Colonel Joseph D?sir? Mobutu, the newly appointed army chief of staff, and William T. Close, M.D., volunteer surgeon in the general hospital, met, and their lives became intertwined during the next sixteen years.
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