Imagine walking away from a lucrative private practice as a successful German neurologist to spend nearly three decades hawking medicines out of a wooden box in the African bush. This is the staggering reality of Dr. Johanna Decker, a woman who survived the devastation of WWII only to become the central pillar of healthcare for 60,000 people in rural Matabeleland. In this episode of pplpod, we explore the life of a medical missionary whose clinical versatility, forged in wartime Germany, allowed her to bridge the gap between ancient traditional healing and modern surgical science. We unpack her logistical triumphs, including the massive expansion of St. Paul's Mission Hospital and her strategic navigation of international funding, all while operating as the only  ...