Not All of Us Our Saints: A Doctor's Journey With the Poor - Softcover

Hilfiker, David, M.D.

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9780345395405: Not All of Us Our Saints: A Doctor's Journey With the Poor

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ISBN 10: 0345395409 ISBN 13: 9780345395405

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1996

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A doctor who practices in a poverty-stricken ghetto near Washington, D.C., recounts his decision to work among the poor and describes the harrowing conditions under which his patients are forced to survive. Reprint. Winner of the Christopher Award.

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About the Author:

Dr. David Hilfiker, MD is the author of Not All of Us Are Saints: A Doctor's Journey with the Poor. Dr. Hilfiker graduated from Yale College and the University of Minnesota Medical School. Hilfiker and his family helped found Christ House, a medical recovery shelter for homeless men. He also founded Joseph's House, a home and community for formerly homeless men with AIDS. He practiced medicine as a board certified family practitioner from 1975 to 1982, and now lives in Washington, DC.

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David Hilfiker left his practice in rural Minnesota and began to practice poverty medicine in a ravaged community not far from the White House. Fascinating and deeply affecting, this is his elegantly written true story of that time. Previously published by Hill and Wang.

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