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050 00 $aRE31$b.R45 2016
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100 1 $aRelin, David Oliver,$eauthor.
245 10 $aSecond suns :$btwo trailblazing doctors and their quest to cure blindness, one pair of eyes at a time /$cDavid Oliver Relin ; foreword by Paul Farmer ; afterword by Dr. Geoffrey Tabin.
264 1 $aNew York :$bThe Experiment,$c2016.
300 $ax, 422 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm
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500 $aOriginally published: New York : Random House, ©2013.
505 0 $aSee you -- Wound construction -- Here you are -- Burn the day -- Down from the moon -- Stones on your chest -- Daylight in the dark -- A bit of sport -- The problem of her eyes -- The eighth summit -- If you can dream -- Stream of sesame seeds -- The most eyes on earth -- Three shirts a day -- The wave is water -- Rock meets bones -- Sir is willing -- Load shedding -- Burn the old house down -- Ravishing beautiful flowers -- Clear vision for life -- The singing bowls of Swayambhunath -- Eye contact -- The road is coming -- This is Rwanda -- Hands, eyes, heart -- The winter trail.
520 $aDavid Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world's most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project, an organization they founded in 1995. Tabin was the high-achieving bad boy of Harvard Medical School, an accomplished mountain climber and adrenaline junkie as brilliant as he was unconventional. Ruit grew up in a remote Nepalese village, where he became intimately acquainted with the human costs of inadequate access to health care. Together they found their life's calling: tending to the afflicted people of the Himalayas, a vast mountainous region with an alarmingly high incidence of cataract blindness. Second Suns takes us from improvised plywood operating tables in villages without electricity or plumbing to state-of-the-art surgical centers at major American universities where these two driven men are restoring sight-and hope-to patients from around the world. With their revolutionary, inexpensive style of surgery, Tabin and Ruit have been able to cure tens of thousands -- all for about twenty dollars per operation. Relin brings the doctors' work to life through portraits of patients helped by the surgery, from old men who cannot walk treacherous mountain trails unaided to cataract-stricken children who have not seen their mothers' faces for years.
600 10 $aTabin, Geoff.
600 10 $aRuit, Sanduk.
610 20 $aHimalayan Cataract Project.
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650 2 $aCataract Extraction.$0(uri) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/?term=D002387
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700 1 $aFarmer, Paul,$d1959-$ewriter of foreword.
700 1 $aTabin, Geoff,$ewriter of afterword.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aRelin, David Oliver.$tSecond suns.$dNew York : The Experiment, [2016]$z9781615193639$w(DLC) 2016025838
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