Original Air Date: Sunday, January 29, 2006
Shikarpur Diary: A Road Less Traveled
Dr. Maybel Bruce, Dr. Mary Wilder, Dr. Ann Irish, Nurse Phyllis Linkenback, and Nurse Hannah Pollock chose to take the road to the Sindh desert of Pakistan. Here for the best years of their lives, they would serve the physical needs of women and children who otherwise would not have received medical care. And here these women chose to spend decades of their lives, giving up the privileges of life in North America, successful careers, the respect they would have enjoyed in their homeland, and their own possibilities for marriage and family life. Discover what makes someone choose this fork in the road, "Shikarpur Diary: A Road Less Traveled," on this Day of Discovery.