For those of you who like to read, I read this book by Dr. Catherine Hamlin, The Hospital by the River. It is For those of you who like to read, I read this book by Dr. Catherine Hamlin, The Hospital by the River. It is excellent and is highly recommended! This is the story of the Hamlins, who helped develop the fistula surgery and moved from Australia to Ethiopia to help these precious women suffering with VVF. Our Dr. Steve is mentioned in this book as he was trained to perform the VVF surgery under Dr. Hamlin. He now comes regularly to the Africa Mercy and trains surgeons to do this surgery. He has trained a surgeon here in Liberia that is performing VVF surgery at the JFK hospital here in Monrovia.
