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I really wish I could make a difference like that.
Edit: Also available on YouTube... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HfPV7FEy6o
Ethiopia has a birth rate of 4.2. That's more than any European people anywhere on Earth. She could have done so much more good for her own people at home rather than by assisting the fertility of strangers who are now flooding our homelands.
I'm not assigning malice, but it is yet another demonstration of how our best intentions come back to bite us (and our grandchildren exponentially moreso).
I really wish I could make a difference like that.
Do you work with information? Re-read the article and notice how many of her great accomplishments were directly diagnosing and treating patients, which you can't do, and how many were making sure the right information went to the right place, which you can.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you work with information? Re-read the article and notice how many of her great accomplishments were directly diagnosing and treating patients, which you can't do, and how many were making sure the right information went to the right place, which you can.
Yes, information has a role everywhere, but the article only mentions a telegram and "nobody knows about these women". What did I miss?
But the Hamlins knew it was both fixable and preventable - as they told Ethiopia's then ruler, Haile Selassie.
"He said, why do my women get this terrible thing where they can’t control their body waste?" Dr Hamlin told the BBC.
"We said, it is nothing to do with your women, it is to do with your lack of doctors in the countryside when they need to have a Caesarian section."
Second example:
But the Hamlins would not only help repair the damage; they also gave Mamitu - who has no formal education - a new career: she is now an internationally respected fistula surgeon, having been taught by the Hamlins.
Third example:
Then, in 2007, Dr Hamlin saw one of her initial dreams finally fulfilled: the Hamlin College of Midwives opened.
I remember a Nova documentary about this... https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/a-walk-to-beautiful.html Edit: Also available on YouTube... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HfPV7FEy6o