The Refugee Doctor Nobody Expected to Find in Rural Kentucky
When Dr. Amara Osei arrived in Harlan County, Kentucky, in 2019, the whispers started immediately. A physician from Ghana, practicing in a coal town of...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on John 1:43-51.
When Dr. Amara Osei arrived in Harlan County, Kentucky, in 2019, the whispers started immediately. A physician from Ghana, practicing in a coal town of four thousand? The locals were polite but skeptical. "Can anything good come out of" — well, they didn't say Nazareth, but the sentiment was identical. Marcus Wheeler, a retired miner with black lung disease, refused to see her for three months.…
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