Ok, I have to get something off my chest... in 2008, all incoming Freshman of the University of Illinois received a copy of this book, with instructions to have it read by the time we arrived on campus. I had attempted to read it then, but failed miserably, and it was apparent that a vast majority of my peers were in the same boat.
However, now that I have read it, I can see why a University Chancellor would recommend it for incoming freshman.
Well as they say, better late than never.
Onto the take home lesson of the book, and why I believe the Chancellor wished that all of us would read it: if you want to make a change in this world, you will have to work really, really, fucking hard.
The book revolves around Paul Farmer, a Ph.D in Anthropology and M.D from Harvard, who splits his time between Boston and Haiti, as well as a bevy of other third world countries and shitholes(like Russian prisons), trying to fight HIV and Tuberculosis. In his free time, while he is not seeing to patients in clinics, he is taking multi-day long treks into the remotest of remote regions of Haiti to make house visits to patients who are too weak to make the treacherous visit themselves, and to assess his patients living conditions.
Oh, and he hardly ever sleeps.
Yeah, you could say he works really, really, fucking hard.
The book revolves around Paul Farmer, a Ph.D in Anthropology and M.D from Harvard, who splits his time between Boston and Haiti, as well as a bevy of other third world countries and shitholes(like Russian prisons), trying to fight HIV and Tuberculosis. In his free time, while he is not seeing to patients in clinics, he is taking multi-day long treks into the remotest of remote regions of Haiti to make house visits to patients who are too weak to make the treacherous visit themselves, and to assess his patients living conditions.
Oh, and he hardly ever sleeps.
Yeah, you could say he works really, really, fucking hard.
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