Notes from a Diarrhea Doc

by Richard L. Guerrant

These are stories about two Virginia kids moving to Boston and Baltimore, evacuated from Congo and Bangladesh, and working in Brazil and South Africa. You will read about influential teachers, a “high school sweetheart” and how anyone could become a “diarrhea doc.” Trajectories of provincial Virginia lives were shattered by a first airplane trip abroad, to the Congo, then Boston, then the country that became Bangladesh and two evacuations. Those experiences led to working in Navajo Nation, Brazil and South Africa and eventful times back at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. From crocodile hunting on the Lulua River in the Congo and a historic cyclone in Bengal to evacuations to Iran amidst the war of independence in Bangladesh, you will learn largely untold history and about colorful Nobel laureates and people across diverse American, African and Asian cultures who became great friends along this journey. These friends and experiences transformed our perspectives about our human family.

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Published July 1, 2022