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    Running With Kenyans: Heartfelt stories of an American Doctor in Africa
    Running With Kenyans: Heartfelt stories of an American Doctor in Africa
    Running With Kenyans: Heartfelt stories of an American Doctor in Africa
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    Running With Kenyans: Heartfelt stories of an American Doctor in Africa

    By Andrew Baldwin M.D.

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    My name is Andy Baldwin and I am a doctor in the US Navy. I have had the opportunity to travel the world for my job for Navy Medicine and have been moved by the kindness of humanity, the pain of poverty, and the hope of children worldwide, but never before have I had an experience like these last few months.
    Over the last seven weeks I have chronicled my journey with the Navy’s Global Force for Good providing medical care at a small rural clinic in Kenya on the Morton Report. I also trained for the Nairobi marathon and the ING New York marathon, two marathons, two continents, one week apart and a world of difference.
    After finishing the ING NY Marathon, I wrote to my editor about my race experience. It was the toughest, most emotionally challenging, physically exhausting, and ultimately inspiring race I’d ever run. She remarked “Andy, your description of the marathon is pretty much a summary of your time in Africa.” She was right.
    "Running with Kenyans" tells the story of my experience in Africa. In this special e-book edition, I will share that story with you, along with my personal photographs from my life-changing experience.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTransmedia Books
    Release dateDec 12, 2011
    ISBN9780983451143
    Running With Kenyans: Heartfelt stories of an American Doctor in Africa
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    Andrew Baldwin M.D.

    U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Andrew Baldwin, M.D. is a physician, humanitarian, U.S. Navy diver and humanitarian currently serving as a family medicine resident at the Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton in Southern California. Prior to his current position, Dr. Baldwin served at the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Washington, D.C. as a spokesman and advocate for Navy medicine. While in D.C. he assisted the U.S. Surgeon General with a program called Healthy Youth for a Healthy Future and currently serves as an advocate for the Let's Move Campaign headed by First Lady Michelle Obama. Both of these programs target childhood overweight and obesity. Lieutenant Commander Baldwin was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where he was Valedictorian of his high school class, an All-American swimmer, and was the ESPN national scholar/athlete of the year in 1995. After receiving a full Navy ROTC scholarship to Duke University, he chose to attend the prestigious school and pursue a pre-med curriculum. Baldwin swam as a varsity athlete throughout his undergraduate career and graduated with honors as a student-athlete in 1999 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and was commissioned into the United States Navy. Baldwin pursued his dream of becoming a physician, by enrolling and completing medical school at the University of California - San Francisco School of Medicine. After graduating in 2003, Baldwin completed a year internship in General Surgery at Naval Medical Center San Diego, and went on to serve his operational duty in the Navy as an Undersea Medical Officer. He completed Navy Dive School and Undersea medical training and spent a three-year tour in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii with Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit ONE. While stationed in Hawaii, Dr. Baldwin deployed to the Philippines, Thailand, Laos, Singapore, Cambodia, and the Republic of Palau on various diving, recovery and humanitarian missions. Upon moving to California, Baldwin took up cycling, and with his past running and swimming prowess was able to put them all together in a sport new to him - triathlon. He completed his first triathlon in 2001 with Team in Training, combining sport and charity for the first time, and finished atop the podium. He was hooked. Baldwin achieved his childhood dream in 2002 when he qualified for and completed the Ironman Triathlon World Championships in Hawaii. Baldwin has since been named to the All-Navy Triathlon Team five times, been a three time U.S.A. Triathlon All-American, and competed internationally in numerous Half-Ironman and Ironman events. He is an eight-time Ironman finisher, and believes firmly in the motto "Anything is Possible!" Among his numerous acknowledgements, Dr. Baldwin has been honored on the Washington D.C. Most Influential People under 40 list in 2009, and Outside Magazine's Top 100 Influential People of the World list in 2006 for the humanitarian work he did in Laos on a military mission where he treated over 600 Laotians in remote villages. Baldwin has been featured in numerous media outlets including Men’s Health Magazine, GQ Magazine, Runners World, and Triathlete Magazine. His television appearances are extensive including interviews on Good Morning America, The View, and FOX News as well as a special guest appearance on ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Dr. Baldwin was also the star of ABC hit show, "The Bachelor: An Officer and a Gentleman"

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      Running With Kenyans - Andrew Baldwin M.D.

      Andy, your work in Kenya at the Chebaiywa Clinic is inspiring. Through my travels with National Geographic Explorer and Our America, I witness the critical need worldwide for quality medical care and focus on raising healthy kids. Your decision to fight for healthy kids both in America with you work for ING's Run for Something Better program and in Africa delivering these beautiful babies and caring for these children, is phenomenal. Keep running and working for these causes! I am proud of you.

      - Lisa Ling, special correspondent, Our America with Lisa Ling on Oprah Winfrey Network; CNN contributor; co-host, ABC, The View; author, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride and Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity.

      Running with Kenyans

      Heartfelt Stories of an American Doctor in Africa

      Smashwords Edition

      by Andy Baldwin and Summers McKay

      Photography by Andrew Baldwin, M.D. and Michael Chitwood

      Editing and Book Production by Ellen Stiefler

      Published by Transmedia Books at Smashwords

      Copyright © 2011 Andrew Baldwin and Summers McKay

      The authors are donating a portion of the proceeds from this book to World Vision.

      ABOUT THE AUTHORS

      Dr. Andy Baldwin – Ambassador of Wellness.

      U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Andrew Baldwin, M.D. is a physician, humanitarian and U.S. Navy diver currently serving as a family medicine resident at the Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton in Southern California. Prior to his current position, Dr. Baldwin served at the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Washington, D.C. as a spokesman and advocate for Navy medicine. While in D.C. Andy assisted the U.S. Surgeon General with a program called Healthy Youth for a Healthy Future and currently serves as an advocate for the Let's Move Campaign headed by First Lady Michelle Obama. Both of these programs target childhood overweight and obesity. Andy is partnered with ING's Run for Something Better and Team Worldvision working to bring proper nutrition to children worldwide.

      In October, Andy spent a month on rotation at The Chebaiywa Clinic in Kenya providing prenatal and perinatal care. He then ran back-to-back marathons in Nairobi and New York to further awareness of the fight against both hunger and childhood obesity.

      Oh yeah, he was also the star of ABC's The Bachelor, an Officer and a Gentleman.

      Summers McKay

      Summers McKay is a freelance story teller, writer, producer, blogger and current MBA student at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. With a career that began as an intern at Entertainment Tonight and has included positions in sales and international distribution at Paramount Studios, talent management and reality TV production, Summers has worked in entertainment from just about every angle. Her passion in the media biz is to create positive change in our world, empowering people and communities through inspiring media, socially responsible messaging, fun content, effective distribution and truly collaborative opportunities to do some good. Collaborating with Dr. Andy Baldwin on this collection of stories while based in Santa Monica was both a fascinating and emotionally challenging experience and inspired Summers to continue to find and develop stories from Africa and throughout the developing world. Find Summers on twitter @SummersMcKay

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      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Chapter I

      Chapter II

      Chapter III

      Chapter IV

      Chapter V

      Chapter VI

      Chapter VII

      Chapter VIII

      Chapter IX

      Chapter X

      Chapter XI

      Chapter XII

      How You Can Help

      PREFACE

      Survival in Africa is a Marathon

      My name is Andy Baldwin and I am a doctor in the US Navy. I have had the opportunity to travel the world for my job for Navy Medicine and have been moved by the kindness of humanity, the pain of poverty, and the hope of children worldwide, but never before have I had an experience like these last few months. Over the last seven weeks I have chronicled my journey with the Navy’s Global Force for Good providing medical care at a small rural clinic in Kenya on the Morton Report. I also trained for the Nairobi marathon and the ING New York marathon, two marathons, two continents, one week apart and a world of difference.

      After finishing the ING NY Marathon, I wrote to my editor about my race experience. It was the toughest, most emotionally challenging, physically exhausting,

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