Community Service and Volunteering are key components of one’s time at Touro University California. In addition to learning the needed curriculum to have outstanding careers, understanding the impact one can have through community engagement provides invaluable real-world experience.
Here are a few selected titles but there are so many more on display! Come check them out!
The Flying Doctors: trips into Mexico
By Anne Dixon
Goodreads Synopsis:
The author was a member of the Flying Doctors or Los Medicos Voladores in Spanish, where medical and dental volunteers flew in private planes into the outback of Mexico. Many of her flights were routine, but a couple were not only exciting but one became a near-death experience.
WX 159.5 N59 2020
Beyond the Reef: A medical volunteer sojourn
By Michele Browne
Goodreads Synopsis:
When two young doctors, Michele and Michael Browne, embarked on a two-year volunteer sojourn to a tiny Pacific Island in the 1980s, they were faced with far more than they had expected. While they experienced adventure and humour in this picturesque setting, their intense isolation, and the life and death encounters that they faced in their medical work, tested their resilience as never before. When personal tragedy struck their young family late in their posting, they found themselves profoundly changed - both then and ever since.
WX 1459.5 B77 2020
The Hospital at the End of the World
By: Joe Nimczura, RN, MS
Goodreads Synopsis:
There are 2,600 hospitals in Asia, Africa and South America which could be classified as "Mission Hospitals" - far off the beaten path, providing basic medical service to the poorest people of the world. The Hospital at the End of the World tells the story of a nurse from the USA and his first experience as a teaching nurse in Nepal.
WX 159.5 N54 2013
Call the Pharmacist
By Elizabeth Roddick, F.R. Pharm. S
Goodreads Synopsis:
Set in Glasgow, Elizabeth Roddick, an NHS award-winning pharmacist, gives a very personal account of her life in and out of her community pharmacy. Starting with her father’s struggle as a chemist in 1938, she details the rich, humorous and sometimes poignant stories of the interaction with her patients and customers. The development of pharmacy services over the 30-year period is illustrated as well as demonstrating her holistic approach to health within her pharmacy and in the public speaking arena.
WZ 112.5 N54 2013
War doctor: surgery on the front line
By David Nott; Henry Marsh; Eleanor Nott
Goodreads Synopsis:
For more than 25 years, surgeon David Nott has volunteered in some of the world’s most dangerous conflict zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993 to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out lifesaving operations in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the resources of a major metropolitan hospital. He is now widely acknowledged as the most experienced trauma surgeon in the world.
WZ 112.5 N68 2020
https://go.exlibris.link/RkN1n3zJ
What the eyes don't see: a story of crisis, resistance, and hope in an American city
By Mon Hanna-Attisha
Goodreads Synopsis:
Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders, discovered that the children of Flint, Michigan, were being exposed to lead in their tap water--and then battled her own government and a brutal backlash to expose that truth to the world. At the center of the story is Dr. Mona herself--an immigrant, doctor, scientist, and mother whose family's activist roots inspired her pursuit of justice.
WA 689 H243w 2018
https://go.exlibris.link/bc1kThKw
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