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my internship training in the anesthesiology department. She
was a well-trained surgeon who had just returned from one of
the missions in Africa, who realized she needed more training
in order to perform anesthesia on her own when
anesthesiologists are not available. Everyone at work was
secretly discussing about this “miracle worker” and when I met
her I instantly knew she was the one. She was confident and
humble at the same time, and she would care about using
resources that nobody would have in a big medical center
where all supplies were in abundance. Every little detail was
important to her, and nothing was to be wasted. Of course at
that time I knew nothing of the organization, except that they
send people (all doctors I assumed at the time) to dangerous
places that nobody wanted to go.

Now this book was not exactly how I imagined it would
be - all praise and applause for the humanitarian work the
organization did, but to tell the real story behind all the
selflessness and seemingly unending good deeds. After
reading the book, I understood more about the establishment of
the association, the ugly truth of the role politician plays in a
world game of power exchange, and how naive it was for me to
think there are pure kindness in this world, represented by the
noble work these doctors were doing.

There are two sides to every story, and this one is no

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