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Author Relin, David Oliver.

Title Second suns : two doctors and their amazing quest to restore sight and save lives / David Oliver Relin
Edition First edition
Published New York : Random House, [2013]
©2013

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 W'PONDS  617.742059 Tabin Rel/Sst  AVAILABLE
Description x, 415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents See you -- Wound construction -- Here you are -- Burn the day -- Down from the moon -- Stones on your chest -- Daylight in the dark -- A bit of sport -- The problem of her eyes -- The eighth summit -- If you can dream -- Stream of sesame seeds -- The most eyes on Earth -- Three shirts a day -- The wave is water -- Rock meets bone -- Sir is willin -- Load shedding -- Burn the old house down -- Ravishing beautiful flowers -- Clear vision for life -- The singing bowls of Swayambhunath -- Eye contact -- The road is coming -- This is Rwanda -- Hands, eyes, heart -- The winter trail
Summary Documents the inspiring story of a partnership between an American and Nepali doctor to provide eyesight-saving treatments to tens of thousands of patients through their Himalayan Cataract Project
Subject Tabin, Geoff.
Ruit, Sanduk.
Cataract -- Surgery -- Nepal.
Cataract -- Surgery.
Cataract Extraction -- history.
Ophthalmology.
Blindness -- prevention & control.
History, 20th Century.
Developing Countries.
SUBJECT Nepal http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091522 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
Nepal. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009390
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Genre/Form Biography.
Biographies.
LC no. 2012026082
ISBN 9781400069255 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
1400069254 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
9780679603566 (eISBN)
0679603565 (eISBN)