Paul Brand: Helping Hands

By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Watching his father perform medical procedures back in India had convinced Paul that medicine was about blood and guts and ulcers. To his amazement, he found that it was really about causes and cures, alleviating pain, and treating ill people with dignity.

The son of missionary parents, Paul Brand did not plan on becoming a doctor. After training as a builder, he was called by God into medicine and spent a lifetime treating leprosy and restoring hope to thousands of sufferers.

Dr. Paul Brand became the first surgeon in the world to use reconstructive surgery to correct the deformities of leprosy in the hands and feet. He strove to eliminate the stigma of the disease and rebuild the lives of those destroyed by it. A humble, brilliant servant, he influenced faith and medical communities around the world, reminding us that all men are created in the image of God.

©2012 Janet Benge and Geoff Benge (P)2023 YWAM Publishing

Brilliant and Inspirational

One seldom reads about a more inspirational, compassionate, genius individual! Dr. Paul Brand used his education and his extraordinary creative and inquisitive research to transform thousands and thousands of lives on many continents. Every person was significant to him. This is a brilliantly written biography of a man whose work I have followed for decades. The writing and the performance brought me right there wherever he was living, studying, working, serving, from living in London during the horrendous bombing and World War II to the heat in Southern India or Louisiana. Thank you!

The expressive narration, Masterful.

The narrator made the story come alive. Paul and Margaret Brand were an extraordinary couple who had many accomplishments through the years and yet remained humble servants .