It takes the average reader 4 hours and 50 minutes to read A Surgeon in the Village by Tony Bartelme
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A “lyrical, inspirational” story of doctors who changed the health care of an African nation (Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation) Dr. Dilan Ellegala arrives in Tanzania, shocked to find the entire country has just three brain surgeons for its population of forty-two million. Haydom Lutheran Hospital lacks even the most basic surgical tools, not even a saw to open a patient’s skull. Here, people with head injuries or brain tumors heal on their own or die. When confronted with a villager suffering from a severe head trauma, Dilan buys a tree saw from a farmer, sterilizes it, and then...
A Surgeon in the Village by Tony Bartelme is 290 pages long, and a total of 72,500 words.
This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 36 minutes to read A Surgeon in the Village aloud.
A Surgeon in the Village is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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