Promises To Keep: The Life Of Doctor Thomas A. Dooley

by Agnes W. Dooley

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318 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1962

Reviews

[Thomas Schulte · Rating 3 out of 5]

A mother's review of her altruistic doctor son's career and good works. Much of this is told in an epistolary fashion in letters from Dooley's humanitarian work along the border between North and South Vietnam in the wake of the French withdrawal following the First Indochina War and later from Laos at the dawn of the Laotian Civil War. Mrs. Dooley and brother Malcom serve as narrators and add their Stateside remembrances. There is details of genocidal crimes committed by North Vietnamese communists as well as by Chinese Communists in Tibet. I am always moved and awed by the lives of gifted doctors from the First World that forego a financially rewarding and safe life to go where the need is greatest.

[Amy Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked this up at a used book sale and never dreamed what a gem it would be! I didn't want to put it down. Such an inspiring life Dr. Dooley lived in the face of such hate and horror. I appreciate that the account is written by his mom. Yes, she was biased AND she also knew him best. Loved it.