Chapter 11 Dr. Brand Summary

In Chapter 11 Dr. Brand defined true rehabilitation. He said that it is to “partner in the task of restoring dignity to a broken spirit.”(Brand 159) He states that rehabilitation wasn’t something he had learned in medical school, but something he learned after having traveled the world, and establishing Karigiri. Dr. Brand reflected on rehabilitation and wrote that true rehabilitation comes as his sense of hubris was stripped, and as he realized that he could not save patients. While he could repair damage from leprosy or treat them, every patient he had would eventually have to leave and attempt to build a new life. The patients had the hard job to do, but he realized he could walk with them through the whole journey. Being able to surgically