A young doctor cycles around the world and discovers how societies treat their most vulnerable, in this thought-provoking and witty medical odyssey When Stephen Fabes left his job as an emergency-room doctor and set out to cycle around the world, frontline medicine quickly faded from his mind. The daily challenges of life on the road stack up as he navigates desertsācoaxing a few more miles from 'Ol' Patchy' (his most faithful innertube)āand learns to live with the seeming constant threat posed by local wildlife, be it mangy dogs in Indonesia, grizzly bears in Alaska, or, in Australia, the common death adder, three words he was dismayed to find exist in sequence.But leaving medicine behind was not as easy as it seems.As Stephen crossed continentsāon a journey that would take six years and cover more than 53, 000 milesāhe finds people whose health has suffered through exile, stigma, or circumstance and others, whose lives have been saved through kindness and community.After encountering a frozen body of a monk in the Himalayas, he is drawn ever more to healthcare at the margins of the world, to crumbling sanitoriums and refugee camps, to city dumps and war-torn hospital wards.In this gripping blend of true adventure and medical narrative, Stephen learns the value of listening to livesānot just solving diagnostic puzzles. Signs of Life challenges us to see care for the sick as a duty born of our compassion and our humanity.
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- English
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Personal DevelopmentSubtopic
Historical BiographiesTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Prologue
- Part One: London to Cape Town
- Part Two: Ushuaia to Deadhorse
- Part Three: Melbourne to Mumbai
- Part Four: Hong Kong to Calais
- Part Five: Home
- Photographs
- Acknowledgements
- Authorās Note
- About the Author
- Selected Bibliography
- Copyright
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