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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder follows Paul Farmer from Haiti to Peru and Russia, exploring how poverty shapes illness and how devoted care can reach more patients.

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5 parts, about 26 minutes to read.

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Tracy Kidder
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5 parts
Reading time
about 26 minutes
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What the summary covers

  1. A doctor in two worlds4 min
  2. What the mountains show7 min
  3. When treatment itself goes wrong5 min
  4. The reach and cost of care5 min
  5. The long defeat5 min

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  • Goes deeperScarcity

    Kidder shows Farmer supporting poor patients beyond providing medicines. Mullainathan and Shafir add that financial scarcity can tax mental bandwidth, weakening the memory needed to take medicines regularly.

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