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From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the uplifting history of two very different doctors - one from america, the other from Nepal - united in a typical quest: to rid the world of avoidable blindness. In this particular transporting booklet, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to rebuilding 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 accomplished mountain climber and adrenaline junkie as outstanding as he was unconventional. Ruit was raised in a remote control Nepalese village, where he became intimately acquainted with the real human costs of insufficient access to health care. Mutually they found their life's phoning: maintaining the afflicted people of the Himalayas, a massive mountainous region with an alarmingly high incidence of cataract blindness. Second Suns takes us from improvised plywood operating dining tables in villages without electricity or plumbing to state-of-the-art surgical centers at major American colleges where these two powered men are rebuilding perception - and trust - to patients from across the world. With the revolutionary, inexpensive style of surgery, Tabin and Ruit have had the opportunity to cure thousands - all for about twenty us dollars per procedure. David Oliver Relin brings the doctors' work to vivid life through poignant portraits of patients helped by the surgery, from old men who cannot walk treacherous mountain paths unaided to cataract-stricken children who have not seen their mothers' faces for a long time. Together with the dexterity of any master storyteller, Relin shows the serious emotional and sensible impact that these operations experienced on patients' lives. Second Suns is the moving, memorable history of how two men with a shared goal are changing the world, one couple of eyes at the same time.
