Your Heart is the Size of Your Fist: A Doctor Reflects on Ten Years at a Refugee Clinic

✍ Scribed by Scholtens, Martina

• Book ID: 110023026
• Publisher: Touchwood Editions
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 936 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781927366684

✦ Synopsis

An absorbing and touching read, this collection of true stories is the first book by a Canadian doctor on the topic of refugee health.

Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist draws readers into the complicated, poignant, and often-overlooked daily happenings of a busy urban medical clinic for refugees.

An Iraqi journalist whose son has been been murdered develops post-traumatic stress disorder and mourns his loss of vocation. A Congolese woman refuses antiretroviral treatment for her new HIV diagnosis, and instead places her trust in Jesus. Two conservative Muslim Iraqi women are inadvertently exposed to pornography when a doctor uses Google Images to supplement a medical discussion. By turns humorous, distressing, and moving, these stories offer insight into the people seeking a new life while navigating poverty, language barriers, and neighbours who aren't always friendly.

This riveting collection of true stories from Dr. Martina Scholtens is filled...