This Narrow Space 9780805243321

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Titel: This Narrow Space
Auteur: Elisha Waldman
ISBN: 9780805243321
Conditie: Als nieuw

A memoir both bittersweet and inspiring by an American pediatric oncologist who spent seven years in Jerusalem treating childrenIsraeli Jews, Muslims, and Christians, and Palestinian Arabs from the West Bank and Gazawho had all been diagnosed with cancer.

In 2007, Elisha Waldman, a New Yorkbased doctor in his mid-thirties, was offered his dream job: attending physician at Jerusalems Hadassah Medical Center. He had gone to medical school in Israel and spent time there as a teenager; now he was going to give something back to the land he loved. But in the wake of a financial crisis at the hospital, Waldman, with considerable regret, left Hadassah in 2014 and returned to the United States. This Narrow Space is his poignant memoir of seven years that were filled with a deep sense of accomplishment but also with frustration when regional politics got in the way of his patients care, and with tension over the fine line he had to walk when the religious traditions of some of his patients families made it difficult for him to give those children the care he felt they deserved. Navigating the baffling Israeli bureaucracy, the ever-present threat of full-scale war, and the cultural clashes that sometimes spilled into his clinic, Waldman learned to be content with small victories: a young patient whose disease went into remission, brokenhearted parents whose final hours with their child were made meaningful and comforting.

Waldman also struggled with his own questions of identity and belief, and with the intractable conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that had become a fact of his daily life. What he learned about himself, about the complex country that he was now a part of, and about the brave and endearing children he cared forwhether they were from Rehavia, Meah Shearim, Ramallah, or Gaza Citywill move and challenge readers everywhere.

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