Doctor on Call
Mandel Vilar Press (Verlag)
978-1-942134-73-2 (ISBN)
After years of persistent professional hostility and personal discrimination that she and her family experienced as Jewish citizens of the USSR, four generations of the Shapiro family fled the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. As émigrés, they were each allowed to take no more than 40 pounds of possessions and $90 in cash. Their escape route took them first to Vienna and then to Italy, where they were stranded as stateless persons for six months. Eventually the family received permission to enter the United States.
Motivated by her Chernobyl experiences, Alla Shapiro ultimately became one of the world’s leading experts in the development of medical countermeasures against radiation exposure. From 2003 to 2019, she worked for the FDA on disaster readiness and preparation. Dr. Shapiro issues stern warnings regarding the preparedness—or lack thereof—of America for the current Covid-19 pandemic. Doctor on Call exposes the horrifying truths of Chernobyl and alerts us to the deceptions that undermine our ability to respond to global disasters.
Alla Shapiro was born in Ukraine, USSR, and was a first physician-responder to the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe. Following years of discrimination as a Jewish citizen of the Soviet Union, Alla and her extended family immigrated to the United States in the late 1980s. She completed a residency in general pediatrics at Georgetown University Hospital, followed by a fellowship in pediatric hematology-oncology at the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. From 2003 to 2019, Dr. Shapiro worked as a medical officer at the Counterterrorism and Emergency Coordination Staff at the US Food and Drug Administration.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Prologue - The Future Looks Different from the Past
PART I Chernobyl: Doctor on Call
Chapter 1- Nuclear Spring, 1986
Chapter 2 - Rx For Radiation: Take as Directed
Chapter 3 – Olga Leaves and Natasha Returns
Chapter 4 - The Human Toll of Displacement
Chapter 5- A Radioactive Fallacy
Chapter 6- Doctors on Call
Chapter 7 - Red Wine Improves Doctor-Patient Communications
PART II An Extraordinary Journey
Chapter 8- We Left Behind Years of Prejudice and Lies
Chapter 9 -Citizens Without the Country
Chapter 10- Fear and Fortitude
Chapter 11- An Immigrant’s Guide
Chapter 12 - The Tale of the Wandering Jew
Chapter 13 – Prequel the “Trans-Siberian” Express
Chapter 14 - This Was No “Roman Holiday”
Chapter 15 - Live Hard, Sell Hard: The Americana Flea Market in Rome
Chapter 16 – The Pretty Woman Guide to Hitchhiking
Chapter 17 – Global Historic Events Unite Us
Chapter 18 – Barbie Also Wears a Stethoscope
Chapter 19 - My Medical Residency, Take Two
Chapter 20 – A Highway Legend
Chapter 21 –Taking Root in America
PART III Looking Back to Protect the Future
Chapter 22 – Recipient of the Order of the Nervous Neutron
Chapter 23 – Children of Chernobyl
Chapter 24 - At the Roots of a New Drug Discovery
Chapter 25 – The Pursuit of One Gram of Indralin
Chapter 26 – Chernobyl: Twenty Years After
Chapter 27 – On the Shoulders of Giants
Chapter 28 – Who Will Live and Who Will Die?
Chapter 29 - Chernobyl: Thirty Years After
Chapter 30- Wisdom Comes with Experience
Chapter 31- Converging Catastrophes: Chernobyl and COVID-19
Chapter 32- A Disaster will Strike Again: Are We Prepared?
Epilogue
References
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.05.2021 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 49 B&W photographs |
| Verlagsort | CT |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-942134-73-8 / 1942134738 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-942134-73-2 / 9781942134732 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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