Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World | Part II, Chapter 8 Summary and Analysis

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In 1983, with Ophelia out of Haiti, Farmer traveled from Mirebalais to Cange with Fritz Lafontant, a Haitian Anglican priest. Lafontant had set up a basic health clinic in Mirebalais and was trying to serve smaller communities like Cange through building it a chapel and school. Farmer did not stay in Cange, but traveled throughout Haiti. He lived with the peasants and he ate with them, resulting in a case of dysentery so intense that an American public health authority wanted to send him home. He recovered, and he studied all aspects of Haitian life at...

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