The Scalpel and the Silver Bear
Alvord, Lori / Cohen Van Pelt, Elizabeth
The first Navajo woman surgeon combines western medicine and traditional healing.A spellbinding journey between two worlds, this remarkable book describes surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord's struggles to bring modern medicine to the Navajo reservation in Gallup, New Mexico—and to bring the values of her people to a medical care system in danger of losing its heart.Dr. Alvord left a dusty reservation in New Mexico for Stanford University Medical Schoo...