Some Positive Motivation: Author Shares His Powerful Experiences As A Doctor In Africa

A powerful, heart-breaking, surprisingly funny, honest, ultimately uplifting account of life on the medical frontline: a young Australian doctor sharing the stories of people and the difficult conditions they happen to live in.

Damien Brown, a young Australian doctor, thinks he’s ready when he arrives for his first posting with Médecins Sans Frontières in Africa. But the town he’s sent to is an isolated outpost of mud huts, surrounded by landmines; the hospital, for which he’s to be the only doctor, is filled with malnourished children and conditions he’s never seen; and the health workers – Angolan war veterans twice his age and who speak no English – walk out on him following an altercation on his first shift.

In the months that follow, Damien confronts these challenges all the while dealing with the social absurdities of living with only three other volunteers for company. The medical calamities pile up – a leopard attack, a landmine explosion, and having to perform surgery using tools cleaned on the fire being among them – but it’s through Damien’s evolving friendships with the local people that his passion for the work grows.

Band-aid for a Broken Leg is a powerful, sometimes heart-breaking, often funny, always honest and ultimately uplifting account of life on the medical frontline in Angola, Mozambique and South Sudan, and includes an end note about his current work in Central Australia, a powerful comparison. Band-Aid for a Broken Leg is also a moving testimony of the work done by medical humanitarian groups and the extraordinary and sometimes eccentric people who work for them.

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Damien Brown is a 35-year-old Australian doctor based in Melbourne with nine years experience practising medicine. He began writing seriously after his last humanitarian posting, encouraged by readers of a blog he kept while working in Africa. Currently, Damien splits his time between Melbourne and working in a remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory.