In this book, Dr. Lisa Masterson--star of the hit daytime show "The Doctors"--focuses on the life-altering work she does as hands-on head of a foundation called Maternal Fetal Care International, through which she’s established clinics in India and Africa devoted to helping ensure that mothers and babies survive in regions where resources are few and maternal mortality is high.
Here her fans, along with the broader universe of readers drawn to the pathbreaking stories of role models like this accomplished woman of color, will discover the vulnerable and very human side of the TV doc, and the inspiring journey that has allowed her to become an advocate for so many.
Her book traces her inspiring life, moving back and forth between her current work and her upbringing--how her resourceful and resiliant single mother broake away from family in the segregated South to find new opportunities. Dr. Masterson’s mother is a woman of beauty and accomplishment, as her daughter will be, but in those early years, the two of them face discrimination, financial challenges and tumult, moving every few months to avoid paying rent so there will be enough money for what’s most important—the child’s education.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Introduction
One: You and Me against the World
Two: Girl Alone
Three: Always Moving
Four: Wonder Woman
Five: Moods and Secrets
Six: Angel with a Briefcase
Seven: Betrayal
Eight: A Trap Door into Medicine
Nine: Haynesville
Ten: Love
Eleven: Liftoff
Twelve: Meltdown
Thirteen: Cheap Tricks
Fourteen: Spiraling Up, Spiraling Down
Fifteen: Proposal
Sixteen: Anatomy, and a Wedding
Seventeen: Crashing
Eighteen: Luck
Nineteen: County
Twenty: The Prize
Twenty-one: Life-and-Death Situations
Twenty-two: Without Her
Twenty-three: Call Me Dr. Masterson
Twenty-four: “I Love Lucy”
Twenty-five: Butterflies and Oprah
Twenty-six: Daniel’s Mom
Twenty-seven: Opportunity
Twenty-eight: Charity
Twenty-nine: Diary of a Relief Trip, Eritrea, 2007
Thirty: The Doctors
Thirty-one: Blessings
