A Wilder Life

Journey of an Adventuring Doctor

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Pub Date 18 Mar 2021 | Archive Date Not set

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A doctor follows her calling to practise medicine in wild, remote places

Dr Joan Louwrens has always been drawn to wild places, which are balm to her soul. When her husband died, leaving her alone with two small daughters to raise, she threw herself wholeheartedly into 'adventure medicine', seeking out the world's most remote corners - on land and at sea - to practise healing, both her own and others.

Working in wild places from the Kruger Park to the Australian Outback, the Atlantic Ocean islands, and both the Arctic and Antarctic, 'Doctor Joan' dealt with a vast range of medical issues, from rabies to deep-vein thrombosis, childbirth to wisdom-tooth extraction, catatonia to depression.

Showing an eagerness to learn and a humility that aren't always a given in her profession, and with a wry eye and a sympathetic outlook, Joan Louwrens has written a memoir that's a poignant and often funny story of a life lived to the full.

A doctor follows her calling to practise medicine in wild, remote places

Dr Joan Louwrens has always been drawn to wild places, which are balm to her soul. When her husband died, leaving her alone...


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ISBN 9781776191123
PRICE US$17.99 (USD)
PAGES 260

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