Dec 31, 2009

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

Farmer was born into a curious, quirky family on October 29, 1959, in North Adams, Massachusetts. Farmer’s father, Paul Sr. (called “the Warden” for his strictness), was restless and moved his family to Alabama in 1966. Later on, his father bought a bus, and after 1971, the family lived on it … until Paul Sr. bought a fifty-foot boat and moved his family on to that. Farmer and his five siblings were free to pursue their own interests (one of his brothers, for example, is a professional wrestler), and he became interested in science at an early age. Farmer had one serious...