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IN THE SHADOW OF TYRANNY: A
Search for Healing and Hope, by James D. Fett, MD. 2004.
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Review: In the Shadow of Tyranny….
What unique humanitarian thread can run through Ne Win’s
Burma, Mobutu’s Congo, Pol Pot’s Cambodia and Duvaliers’
Haiti, all murderous regimes that violated human rights
and saddled their people with poverty, disease and early
death? That thread was the career of Dr. James (Jim)
Fett, who, while working under the shadow of their
tyranny, emerged into the sunlight of professional
excellence and personal fulfillment. His recent book is
appropriately titled “In the Shadow of Tyranny” (Xlibris
Corporation, 2004). Another author, Joseph Conrad, once
wrote about his hero, “In the east they called him Tuan
Jim, as you might say, Lord Jim.” Jim Fett is no lord;
through a long career that spanned 5 decades he sat
beside the beds of ordinary people who got very sick,
deeply committed to the relieving of their misery as a
compassionate and caring physician. He also remained a
loving husband and father (and a grandfather), and more
important for us, a steadfast and devoted friend of
Hôpital Albert Schweitzer. Long after his eventful
tenure at HAS he returned year after year to unravel the
mystery of a lethal disease that struck the hearts of
young pregnant women and left their children bereft of
the tender and loving care of a mother. Peripartum
cardiomyopathy (PPCM) as it is called forged an eternal
bond between this physician born in the cool climes of
Campbell, Minnesota, and the patients living and dying
in the hot and dusty villages around Deschapelles,
Haiti.
--Venkita Suresh, MD
Chief Executive Officer/Directeur Général, Hôpital
Albert Schweitzer
23 February 2005 |