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Story Description:
Random House|June
18, 2013|Hardcover|ISBN: 978-1-4000-6925-5
From the co-author
of ‘Three Cups of Tea’ comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors –
one from the United States, the other from Nepal – united in a common mission:
to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this
transporting book, David 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 unaccomplished 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. David Oliver Relin brings the doctor’s work
to vivid life through poignant 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 mother’s faces for
years. With the dexterity of a master
storyteller, Relin shows the profound emotional and practical impact that these
operations have had on patient’s lives.
Second Suns is the moving, unforgettable
story of how two men with a shared dream are changing the world, one pair of
eyes at a time.
My Review:
I really don’t
have anything to add to the story description above other than this was one
well-written, fantastic read! What these
two doctors’ have managed to accomplish is truly remarkable and to think of the
hundreds of thousands of people they
have helped is truly staggering. I
couldn’t imagine being a child and never having seen my mother’s face.
Don’t miss this
one, it is truly one phenomenal story.
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