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1 online resource (x, 206 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes index. |
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"Long Road from Quito presents a fascinating portrait of David Gaus, an unlikely hero with deep ties to the University of Notre Dame and an even more compelling postgraduate life. Gaus is co-founder, with his mentor Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., of Andean Health and Development (AHD), an organization dedicated to supporting health initiatives in South America. Tony Hiss traces the trajectory of Gaus's life from an accounting undergraduate to a medical doctor committed to bringing modern medicine to poor, rural communities in Ecuador. When he began his medical practice in 1996, the best strategy in these areas consisted of providing preventive measures combined with rudimentary clinical services. Gaus, however, realized he had to take on a much more sweeping approach to best serve sick people in the countryside, who would have to take a five-hour truck ride to Quito and the nearest hospital. He decided to bring the hospital to the patients. He has now done so twice, building two top-of-the-line hospitals in Pedro Vicente Maldonado and Santo Domingo, Ecuador. The hospitals, staffed only by Ecuadorians, train local doctors through a Family Medicine residency program, and are financially self-sustaining. His work with AHD is recognized as a model for the rest of Latin America, and AHD has grown into a major player in global health, frequently partnering with the World Health Organization and other international agencies. With a charming, conversational style that is a pleasure to read, Hiss shows how Gaus's vision and determination led to these accomplishments, in a story with equal parts interest for Notre Dame readers, health practitioners, medical anthropologists, Latin American students and scholars, and the general public"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Rosa -- "Can you fix her?" -- Camino a la cura -- A beggar sitting on a bag of gold -- Transistor radios -- Panama hats -- The honorable chain?? -- Lightning bolts -- Hospital Hesburgh -- Where's Coco -- Transitions -- Souvenir -- Rosy afterglow and cold, hard dawn -- Family medicine -- Father Ted -- The big stuff -- Beyond the dome of gloom -- In an Ecuadorian way -- How to be a hospital -- An unremarkable room -- A pair of boots -- Tell a really big truth -- Health in Ecuador: the next ten years. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Gaus, David.
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Andean Health and Development (Organization)
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Physicians -- United States -- Biography.
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Physicians. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Physician executives -- United States -- Biography.
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Physician executives. |
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Medical care -- Ecuador.
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Medical care. |
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Ecuador. |
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Medical care -- Latin America.
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Latin America. |
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Health services accessibility -- Ecuador.
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Health services accessibility. |
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Health services accessibility -- Latin America.
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Electronic books.
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Medical care. |
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hiss, Tony. Long road from Quito. Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2019] 9780268105334 (DLC) 2018055516 |
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0268105359 |
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9780268105365 (epub) |
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0268105367 |
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9780268105358 (electronic book) |
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9780268105334 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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