A Healer’s Love

About the Book

Dr. Quarshie, on his journey and quest for higher education in the field of medicine, tries to depict the challenges faced by a majority of foreign students pursuing their careers abroad, particularly in the pursuit of a career in medicine. He intersperses these difficulties with the narration of the trials and fulfillment experienced whilst simultaneously raising a family. With each turn of the page he takes his readers through the ups and downs of the trying but exciting journey and delights them by depicting the varying prominent “personalities” of the recent and not so recent past with their applicable quotes. Dr. Quarshie ends with a road map charting his plans for increased contribution to global medicine. The setting is Wisconsin, New York, Georgia and Virginia, in that order, all in the United States. The foundation of Dr. Quarshie’s growth and education in Ghana is significantly portrayed.

About the Author

Dr. George Quarshie was born in Accra, Ghana. He attended Mfantsipim School and then Pope John’s Secondary, both high schools for five and two years, respectively, before proceeding to the University of Ghana, Legon. After a year, here he gained a partial scholarship to Ripon College in Wisconsin, USA. He transferred to York College (City University of New York) in Jamaica, Queens, New York, where he graduated with a BSc in medical technology. He then attended St. John’s University in Jamaica, Queens, from 1991 to 1994, where he graduated to become a physician’s assistant. He later attended IUHS (International University of the Health Sciences) at St. Kitts, where he obtained his MD and then completed his residency training in family medicine at Memorial University Hospital Center in Savannah, Georgia. He worked at Southside Regional Memorial Hospital in Petersburg, Virginia, and VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University) Hospital as a clinician and assistant professor and is currently medical director at Concentra Urgent Care in Innsbrook, Virginia.