Joan Louwrens

Joan Louwrens is a South African medical doctor with additional qualifications in family medicine, anaesthetics, and tropical medicine. Initially a general practitioner with a special interest in palliative care, she swerved onto an unconventional medical path that saw her working on all seven continents and some oceans in between, sometimes with her two daughters in tow. Home is a wild piece of land near Knysna.

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A Wilder Life

A warm-hearted memoir of living life to the full – and in wild places and which captures the challenges of practicing medicine in extreme conditions and remote locations.

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