Synopsis
More stories from this American doctor’s compassionate encounter with Africans in their country. The stories describe the challenges of suffering and African faith in response.
About the Author(s)
Tom Gates is a graduate of Williams College and Harvard Medical School. After residency training at the University of Utah, he spent eight years as a family practitioner in Lancaster, New Hampshire (population 3000). In 1991, he and his wife Elizabeth, along with their sons Matthew and Nathan, followed God’s leading to Friends Lugulu Hospital in rural western Kenya, where they lived and worked among Kenyan Quakers for three years. Upon their return in 1994, Tom spent a year as a student at Earlham School of Religion, where he enthusiastically pursued interests in Quaker history, Bible studies, theology and ethics. Since 1995, he has been a member of the clinical faculty of the family practice residency at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, General Hospital, where among other things he teaches medical ethics, coordinates resident electives in international health and practices in an underserved minority community. In 1997, the Gates family returned to Lugulu for two months, to renew friendships and fill in at the hospital. Tom Gates is a member of Lancaster Monthly Meeting, where he has served as an Overseer and convener of the Worship and Ministry Committee.
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