House Calls Around the World: A Global Medical Adventure

Charles Sherman began his medical career with the AIDS epidemic and retired from clinical practice during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over his forty-year medical career he served as a board-certified internist pulmonologist and critical care specialist and as a public health epidemiologist. He was an Associate Professor of Medicine (Clinician Educator) at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University where he was acknowledged as an award-winning clinician and teacher. He published over 60 peer-reviewed articles editorials and textbook chapters. For much of his career Dr. Sherman worked on medical projects in Latin America Africa and Eurasia often in leadership roles.House Calls Around the World is a collection of his most often told medical stories many from his global health experiences. The narratives range from a spiritual encounter on the Navajo reservation to performing bronchoscopy on a clouded leopard at the Roger Williams Park Zoo. Along the way the reader joins him in small village clinics around Lake Atitlán in Guatemala a crowded medical ward in Eldoret Kenya and an extreme resistant tuberculosis unit in Hlotse Lesotho.In addition Dr. Sherman shares his insights into the burgeoning field of global medicine including the need to replace self-serving duffle bag medicine with long-term sustainable local healthcare. He also humorously recounts his most significant cultural gaffs like the time he unintentionally insulted the national bread of Ethiopia injera by comparing its appearance to interstitial lung disease. Interwoven in all these stories are vignettes about his personal life that made him the physician he ultimately became and the person he aspired to be (even his fictitious elderly self).This is his first book publication.