Born in war-torn Afghanistan, Waheed Arian's earliest memories are of bombs. After he contracted tuberculosis, his first-hand experience of the power of medicine inspired Waheed to dedicate his life to healing others. Waheed largely taught himself, from textbooks bought from street-sellers, and learned English from the BBC World Service. Smuggled to the UK at fifteen with just $100 in his pocket, he was accepted to read medicine at Cambridge University, Imperial College and Harvard, and went on to become a doctor in the NHS. In 2015 he founded Arian Teleheal, a pioneering global charity that connects doctors in war zones and low-resource countries with their counterparts in the US, UK, Europe and Australia. For readers of Educated and War Doctor, this is the extraordinary memoir of a boy who recognized the power of education and dreamed about helping others.
- Publisher: Bantam Press UK
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Publication date:
17/06/2021
- ISBN: 9781787633971
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Page extent:
304
- Format: Paperback
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Dimensions:
234 mm x 153 mm
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