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When I picked this up at the library, I thought it was going to be a travelogue. (Look, my list didn't have the subtitle.) It wasn't, but that was okay.
I'm not sure the concept would have appealed to me had you described it to me- how One Guy is doing healthcare in places that desperately need it, basically. With a lot on Haiti. Which, like any anything about Haiti, causes the reaction, "OMG, poor Haiti." Because .... poor Haiti. The country hasn't had a good break in like 200 years.
I am definitely less familiar with non-Spanish-speaking countries in this hemisphere, so this was a reacquaintance with it, combined with an awe-inspiring biography of three guys (ok, mostly one of them, but there's a liberal dose of Ophelia and Jim and a bit about some other players) who decided, we should do something about this. And they did. Plus fought TB places besides Haiti. Through a combination of personal action and international diplomacy and bullheaded focus, they created Partners in Health, which is enough of a big deal that even someone as removed as myself has heard of it.
The book jumps around a bit, which I found particularly annoying at the beginning, but there's so much to tell and it's so interesting (and, obviously, well told) that I got past that. And am glad I did.
It's a pretty inspiring but humbling book - what have you done to save the world lately? (Me, I've written a bunch of book reviews....imaginary Paul Farmer is not impressed.)
(And for the second book in this batch, policy is hard.)
I'm not sure the concept would have appealed to me had you described it to me- how One Guy is doing healthcare in places that desperately need it, basically. With a lot on Haiti. Which, like any anything about Haiti, causes the reaction, "OMG, poor Haiti." Because .... poor Haiti. The country hasn't had a good break in like 200 years.
I am definitely less familiar with non-Spanish-speaking countries in this hemisphere, so this was a reacquaintance with it, combined with an awe-inspiring biography of three guys (ok, mostly one of them, but there's a liberal dose of Ophelia and Jim and a bit about some other players) who decided, we should do something about this. And they did. Plus fought TB places besides Haiti. Through a combination of personal action and international diplomacy and bullheaded focus, they created Partners in Health, which is enough of a big deal that even someone as removed as myself has heard of it.
The book jumps around a bit, which I found particularly annoying at the beginning, but there's so much to tell and it's so interesting (and, obviously, well told) that I got past that. And am glad I did.
It's a pretty inspiring but humbling book - what have you done to save the world lately? (Me, I've written a bunch of book reviews....imaginary Paul Farmer is not impressed.)
(And for the second book in this batch, policy is hard.)