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

Part I: Dokte Paul
This section introduces Paul Farmer and explains how Tracy Kidder came to write his story. It opens with a dramatic line: “We met because of a beheading, of all things.” Kidder then dramatically recounts a clash between Farmer and Jon Carroll, a captain in the American Special Forces. Both men were in Haiti to save the country, but each in different ways. Carroll was one of 20,000 American soldiers who had come to Haiti to oversee the reinstitution of democracy (Kidder was there to report on this mission). Farmer was in Haiti to implement an...

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