Gretchen Roedde

A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother-and-child health in the developing world. Recounting medical missions in one-third of the forty-five countries in which she has worked for the past thirty years in Africa, Asia, and, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific, Dr. Gretchen Roedde shares the grim reality of world politics and bureaucratic red tape on the front lines as a doctor in mother-and-child health and HIV/AIDS. This second edition updates the progress in reproductive, maternal,...

A memoir of community-based and collaborative medicine, from bootstrap measures to cross-cultural adaptations in Northern Ontario Author has been an physician in Ontario's remote north since 1978, serving a diverse mix of communities in trying settings Author's first book, A Doctor's Quest , about overseas medical missions in Africa, sold over 2,000 copies