WIN $150 GIFT VOUCHERS: ALADDIN'S GOLD
Marc-David Munk is an emergency physician and health care executive. Over the past decade, he has held leadership roles at a range of nontraditional health care delivery organizations. Munk began his career as a professor of emergency medicine and as the medical director for the Qatari national ambulance service. He later became a senior executive at high-performing physician groups in the US and abroad. Munk grew up in Switzerland and Canada. He graduated from Colgate University with a BA in philosophy and religion and completed an MPH in international health from Boston University. After graduating from Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College, he did residency training in emergency medicine, completed a clinical fellowship in international health at the University of Pittsburgh, and then completed a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at Peru's Gorgas Program. He also holds a master's degree in health care management from Harvard University. Munk lives outside Boston with his wife and his two children. Urgent Calls from Distant Places is his first book. www.mdmunk.com
"Best travel book, 2024 Indiereader Discovery Awards. ""...with succinct and beautifully crafted prose. Urgent Calls from Distant Places is an inspiring and deeply moving book.."" Category finalist, best memoir, 2024 Eric Hoffer Award. Quarter-finalist, best nonfiction book, 2024 Publisher's Weekly Booklife Awards. ""Munk evokes the chaos and flurry of Africa's larger cities alongside the desolation of desert landscapes, all in expert prose that smoothly transports readers into another world. He renders accident scenes in raw, sometimes disturbing spaces, an echo of the tragedies he witnessed during his time abroad, but just as powerful are his reflections on hard-won healings...Munk's ability to draw out the tender moments of his experiences and juxtapose them with the stark reality of his medical work in often-dire circumstances lends this memoir originality and magnetism."" ""An enthralling portrait of high-wire emergency care performed under the most trying circumstances."" ""Our Verdict: Get It!"" Kirkus Reviews ""an absolute home run. One of the best books I have read by a physician writer ever...Wow...just pure wowness."" Dr. Louis Profeta: author of bestselling The Patient in Room Nine Says He's God. ""...eye-opening insight into the longstanding effects of colonialism on East Africa, and one doctor's profound journey of self-discovery and what it means to humble oneself in the service of others. Marc-David Munk brings the East African Flying Doctors to life in his thrilling and insightful memoir, Urgent Calls from Distant Places. An outstanding read! I highly recommend."" Dr. Jay Wellons: author of All That Moves Us (voted one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker and Publishers Weekly.) ""Urgent Calls From Distance Places is not only a powerful and dramatic portrait of medical relief work in rural Africa, it's a deeply-felt and utterly accurate critique of the cruel moral failings of American healthcare as well. Munk is seeking the essential in medicine regardless of where one is in the world, and approaches his story with humility, a synthetic intelligence, wisdom, and an ultimately affirming reverence."" Dr. Frank Huyler: author of The Blood of Strangers, and White Hot Light"
Obstetric Life Support Manual
Etiology, prevention, and treatment...
Hardback
$242
Not in-store but you can order this
Traumatic Brain Injury
A Neurosurgeon's Perspective
Hardback
$399
Not in-store but you can order this
Disaster Psychiatry
Readiness, Evaluation, and Treatment...
Paperback
$207
Not in-store but you can order this
Ranger Handbook
TC 3-21.76, April 2017 Edition
Paperback
$33.95 $30.58
Not in-store but you can order this
