The Temple Road: A Doctor's Journey

by Fazlur Rahman

A veteran cancer physician, Dr Fazlur Rahman’s story is astonishing. He was born and raised in a Mullah family, an old-line Muslim clan, in a remote village in what is now Bangladesh, with its hardships and heartaches, its myths and superstitions. The people, places and cultures that he was a part of have almost entirely disappeared. The temples, mosques and palaces, though gone, come alive again in this beautifully written memoir. And the tales of love, suffering and fate of the village occupants are intertwined with Rahman’s unlikely story of finding medicine and success in America. As a young boy, Rahman lost his mother, the heart of his family, and soon after, barely survived kala-azar, a parasitic illness. The Temple A Doctor’s Journey is an inspiring story of love, joy, suffering, medicine and achievement that takes readers from the jungles of Bangladesh to Dr Rahman’s training in leading medical centres in New York and Houston, and the overwhelming emotions that come with his work as one of the most talented oncologists in the US.

300 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 6, 2016

Reviews

[Christine Towndrow · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great story! It's so fun to read something by someone I know. It has insight on a life I cannot imagine.

[Ashutosh SHUKLA · Rating 4 out of 5]

A brilliant memior by an amazing personality.
The book takes you on a walk to an old Bangladeshi Village, near the border with India . The author draws you in with the thoughts of a 5 year old playing in the village calling the education from his mother,lively, and from the maulana,dry.
I walked with young Fazlur to his school and got scared of the bengal tiger while walking back at dusk
.I got anxious with him when he prepared for his gruelling 1 month MBBS exam. And got a sigh of relief when it got over. I shared the sense of guilt that evoked within him, when he couldn't say goodbye to family members who died in the homeland when he was saving lives in America.
Dr Fazlur is a master storyteller it makes his honest memoir, a journey from a remote village in Bangladesh to the USA, an inspiring story.
Highly recommended!

[Kanupriya Kothiwal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dr Fazlur Rahman's memoir is deeply engaging and insightful to read and seek inspiration for young medical practitioners. I particularly relished the section on his medical training under Dr. Rab and the behavioral-psychological interaction of human health in one case he comes across through a young patient.