He was extremely successful because of the help he received from people who surrounded him. Over the next twenty years, he treated not just the poor in Haiti, but expanded to treat the poor in Peru and prisoners in Russia, leading efforts to address "impossible" diseases like m, For anyone who yearns to "make a difference" but feels overwhelmed at where to start, this book will inspire you, maybe even shock you. EMBED. Just remember “If Paul is the standard, we are all fucked.” Farmer is a doctor working in rural Haiti, a land that many have forgotten and others are willfully ignoring. As a fiction reader/writer who only sporadically dabbles in nonfiction, I find it hard to consolidate the opinions of the two types of readers in me: the one who reads to learn the craft of writing, and the one who wants to be moved by new, eye-opening reading experiences. Welcome back. There are some mildly graphic descriptions of their suffe. Dr. Paul Farmer is many things, world expert on AIDS and Tuberculosis, patient-care physician extraordinaire, founder of a ground-breaking health care facility in Haiti, consultant to Anti-TB programs in Peru and Russia, author of several books and countless articles, husband, father, and, maybe, saint. Kidder unexpectedly finds a man many would call (and have called) a saint. When governments do it, it's called collateral damage. His name is one of the best known in international medical circles. Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes people’s minds through his dedication to the philosophy that “the only real nation is humanity.” Praise for Mountains Beyond Mountains “A true-to-life fairy tale, one that inspires you to believe in happy endings . I wonder how horrible of a person it makes me to only give 3 stars to a book about an incredibly humanistic idealist doctor of infectious disease in 3rd world countries. How he ever finds time to write, publish, and address conventions is beyond me. I wish I had known. Our, "Sooo much more helpful than SparkNotes. I believe him to be one of the most giving individuals on this planet, and in truth, he sees himself as not doing enough. I just finished this amazing account of the work of Paul Farmer. And what kind of person is capable of that level of commitment and sacrifice (although he would hasten to downplay such a description of his efforts and inc. Whether it was from the frequent long & arduous treks in the countryside to see a patient, or the jetting to another country for a 2 hour meeting and then jetting back, all the while not using flying time for sleeping but for working. He has sympathy for liberation theology and a core understanding of the significance of Voodoo. He is a remarkable character, someone who is making a difference, doing paradigm-altering work in treatment of Multi-Drug-Resistant TB (MDR) and AIDS. In Mountains Beyond Mountains, Pulitzer Prize--winning author Tracy Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who loves the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life's calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? In between practicing medicine (i.e., in between airplane flights), Farmer has authored six books, all on topics of anthropology or medicine. faith contradictions medicine prayers. My rating more reflects on how much I enjoyed the read. Haiti is a complex nation with a heroic history often sullied and distorted by former colonial powers. Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that "the only real nation is humanity" - a philosophy that is embodied in the small public charity he founded, Partners In Health. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. I wonder how horrible of a person it makes me to only give 3 stars to a book about an incredibly humanistic idealist doctor of infectious disease in 3rd world countries. But, Kidder's prose gets a bit wearying, repetitive, and plodding at times. What I got out of this book was that, basically, if you weren't helping the sick in Haiti, then you suck. ", I read this for two different book groups and it provoked some fine discussion and certainly left me thinking about it long afterward. After finishing the book even more after being forced to listen to him as,. 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