Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World | Part III: Medicos Aventureros

Part III: Medicos Aventureros
While in medical school, Farmer had lived at St. Mary of the Angels. The priest there, Father Jack Roussin, had left Boston in the early 1990s to go work in Lima, Peru. He urged Farmer to establish a branch of Partners in Health there, which they did. However, while the pharmacy they built was helping the poor, Father Jack died of multidrug resistant (MDR) TB. In the industrialized world, TB was relatively easy to treat for a serious disease, but if treatment was interrupted, there was a strong chance that the surviving TB bacillus...

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