Daktar - Paperback

by Viggo Olsen (Author), Jeanette Lockerbie (Author)

Daktar: Diplomat in Bangladesh is the powerful, enthralling story of a brilliant surgeon skilled in diplomacy, Dr. Viggo Olsen. Propelled from a carefree Nebraska boyhood into the operating rooms of noted hospitals, Dr. Olsen rejects a remarkable opportunity in academic surgery to serve suffering East Pakistanis half a world away. When war strikes, he rejects evacuation to treat the injured and face a killing, burning, raping army. Read the inside story of those dangerous days.

Author Biography

Dr. Viggo Olsen, BS, MS, MD, FACS, DTM&H, was a diplomat of the American Board of Surgery and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Olsen did his pre-med studies at Tulane University and graduate medical studies at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine. He is also the author of the Muslim Bengali to English Dictionary.



Jeanette Lockerbie (1916-1998) was a staff writer for the Narramore Christian Foundation and editor of the house organ, Psychology for Living.