Aurel Emilian Mircea: 6 books

After the Second World War and the occupation of Eastern Europe by the Red Army, the new Romanian communist regime ordered every medical graduate to serve in a remote village for a minimum of three years. No one had a choice but to comply with the new, draconic law. Failure to do so would have translated...

This collection of short stories is dedicated to all the foreign physicians who immigrated to the USA, in search of the American Dream. Many have chosen to run away from the socialized medicine, prevalent in their country of birth. Others came to join in the enormous medical progress, which made Houston,...

From the rooftop of his family home in Warsaw, Zbygniew, a senior medical student, had witnessed the Red Army invasion of Poland from the East. At the Polish government’s request, the Soviets had raided his motherland, determined to crush the anticommunist demonstrations. Caught in the middle of an...

German Healer “Healthcare under Apartheid” Dr. Koch visited the South African Embassy in Bonn, ready to join the latest flow of physicians toward the land of the Boers. His wife was expecting their first baby and they were both hoping for a healthy boy, to grow up in the tropical climate, away from...

Eric’s affluent family life was equally divided between his French education in the city of Craiova, and his summer activity in the village of Melonburg. But his future became vulnerable when Romania joined the Axis Forces under Hitler’s command and participated in the invasion of the Soviet Union....

Onstage at the annual Jazz Fest in New Orleans, Victor, the bandleader of the Hearts & Souls, gave the signal for the opening number. The dream about a celebratory concert he and his buddies had been waiting for more than forty years had become a reality. During the Cold War, all but one of the seven...