![]() ![]() It's crammed with odd lore about Ethiopia, medicine, diseases, third-world practice, and the various looks and stinks of sickness: It is, for the most part, about being a doctor during the life and times of dictator Haile Selassie. If you don't like medicine, you'll love Cutting for Stone. the inventor of a procedure for repairing "vaginal fistula.") Marion Sims, of Montgomery, Alabama, 1849. Stone's assistant was Sister Mary Joseph Praise, and the surgeon somehow got her with twins: Shiva and Marion, both boys, both destined to become doctors themselves (the last named after Dr. Ghosh, an expert on Venereal Disease the OB/GYN specialist, Hema, from Madras and Thomas Stone, a crack surgeon. ![]() The hospital's name there in Addis Ababa is "Missing." It was supposed to be Mission, but the clerk in the Ethiopian Ministry of Health had trouble writing the English word so it came out "Missing." And so it would always be the "Missing Hospital."īack at the beginning, in 1955, it had three doctors, Dr. ![]()
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