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I have about a decade's experience of working in the medical field - the first couple working on a patient floor in a hospital as a unit clerk putting in orders so inpatients could get the tests they needed, calling codes and doctors during emergencies, that sort of thing. I thought that was stressful. (And it was, but I was also younger and had less perspective.) I wound up leaving that job and going back to the book store world because there are no book emergencies and that was greatly appeali
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This is an outstanding read, not for the writing which is journalistic in style, but for the subject. Paul Farmer is a Harvard educated, world renowned infectious disease specialist with a PhD in medical anthropology along with his MD. But, rather than pursuing a lucrative practice or scholarly recognition, he has turned his tremendous passion, boundless energy and top-notch skills to the care of the world’s poorest in places as diverse as Roxbury, MA an ...more
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