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    The Hand on My Scalpel: Humorous & Heartbreaking Stories from a Jungle Operating Room
    The Hand on My Scalpel: Humorous & Heartbreaking Stories from a Jungle Operating Room
    The Hand on My Scalpel: Humorous & Heartbreaking Stories from a Jungle Operating Room
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    The Hand on My Scalpel: Humorous & Heartbreaking Stories from a Jungle Operating Room

    By David C. Thompson M.D.

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    This is not just a book about surgery. It is not even just about surgery in a remote jungle station.

    It is about God and His unpredictable working in the life and ministry of a missionary kid from Cambodia who ends up as a medical doctor at an isolated hospital in Gabon, West Africa.

    You will laugh when a "simple" outhouse building project turns into a comedy of errors. You will cry when a pregnant, retarded and epileptic girl arrives at the hospital and gives birth to "Grace." But most of all, you will come to understand that there is a love that reaches beyond the possible to embrace the sick and the hopeless and the unlovely—God's love generously displayed by God's servants.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateJul 15, 2008
    ISBN9781600669729
    The Hand on My Scalpel: Humorous & Heartbreaking Stories from a Jungle Operating Room

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      Great engaging book! Stories that made you cry and laugh all at the same time. Clear vision about what we as Christ followers are called to do.

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