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A seventy-year-old physician watched a small frazzled, deathly ill diabetic dog take its last breath. He was overcome with a sudden inexplicable feeling of loss and bewilderment. After a lifetime of experiencing hundreds of deaths in the emergency room, in the war zone, and of friends and family, he was suddenly obsessed with developing a better understanding of life-a more objective, and as it were, scientific explanation. Beginning with the ...

CLUBFOOT tells the little known story of the world's most common skeletal birth defect and development of a revolutionary method for eliminating lifelong disability for the 200, 000 children born every year with this deformity. The hero of this story is Dr. Ignacio Ponseti (1914- 2009) who, as a young physician, became enmeshed in the Spanish Civil War before being forced into exile in France and then Mexico. He eventually found a home in the ...