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Loading... Mountains Beyond Mountainsby Tracy Kidder
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The man (Dr. Farmer) is superhuman...in more ways than one. I am recommending the book to my young son-in-law, a new doctor. I think it should be required reading for all doctors as well as for those who think there is no compassion and love left in our world. ( )Kidder's story about Paul Farmer is both inspiring and humbling. Farmer is such an incredible person and does so much more for the sick and poor than most people could even imagine, but he's still so very human here. A great book - one that I've recommended to several friends and customers. non-fiction, biography, Haiti, medicine, poverty, tuberculosis, AIDS, read in 2009 dult/High School-Thought-provoking and profoundly satisfying, this book will inspire feelings of humility, admiration, and disquietude; in some readers, it may sow the seeds of humanitarian activism. As a specialist in infectious diseases, Farmer's goal is nothing less than redressing the "steep gradient of inequality" in medical service to the desperately poor. His work establishing a complex of public health facilities on the central plateau of Haiti forms the keystone to efforts that now encompass initiatives on three continents. Farmer and a trio of friends began in the 1980s by creating a charitable foundation called Partners in Health (PIH, or Zanmi Lasante in Creole), armed with passionate conviction and $1 million in seed money from a Boston philanthropist. Absolutely fascinating! The power, depth, breadth shown in what one person has accomplished is breathtaking. The world needs more Paul Farmers AND moreTracy Kidders!
''Mountains Beyond Mountains'' is inspiring, disturbing, daring and completely absorbing. It will rattle our complacency; it will prick our conscience.
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