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2004 AAOS Humanitarian Award: Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, MD

The value of service to others and loyalty to one’s homeland was instilled in Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, MD, at a very young age. As an eight-year-old in the city of Kumasi, Ghana, Boachi-Adjei nearly died from a severe gastric illness. When the herbal remedy prescribed by a local healer did little to help, extreme dehydration began to take its toll on the young boy, who grew weaker by the day. Fortunately, his family was able to track down one of the country’s few physicians—a pediatrician who had returned to Ghana after training in the U.K. The doctor came to his aid, successfully treating him with Western medicine. “People were dying next to me,” Dr. Boachie-Adjei says. “I was lucky to have a pediatrician who decided to come home.” Read the full story at http://www6.aaos.org/member/pemr/awar....