FIELD NOTES FROM DEATH'S DOOR - Katie Treble (epub)(Nonfiction) torrent

Field Notes from Death's Door by Katie Treble (ePub) (Nonfiction)
Author: Katie Treble
First Published: June 4, 2025
Category/Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir, Medical, Humanitarian Aid

Field Notes from Death's Door is a gripping, self-aware memoir by Katie Treble, a young British emergency doctor, chronicling her harrowing and transformative experience working with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in the Central African Republic. Feeling stuck in her early thirties—unfulfilled by her career and personal life—Treble signs up for what she hopes will be a meaningful adventure in one of the world’s most dangerous and neglected humanitarian crises.

Dispatched to Bria, a remote diamond-mining town controlled by rebel militia, Treble is thrust into the heart of a grinding conflict marked by poverty, hunger, disease, and violence. Living in an ex-diamond trader’s compound, she faces relentless trauma: sweltering hospital tents with minimal resources, an endless stream of critically ill patients, and the ever-present threat of gunfire and militia attacks. Off-shift, survival means bonding with fellow aid workers over bad local lager, card games, and fleeting moments of levity.