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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDr Paul Farmer, Partners in Health co-founder died.
Partners In Healths co-founder, Dr. Paul Farmer, unexpectedly passed away today in Rwanda from an acute cardiac event while he was sleeping. Dr. Farmer was 62 years old.
Very sad news.
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Dr Paul Farmer, Partners in Health co-founder died. (Original Post)
vanlassie
Feb 2022
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Ditto on that ... it took me a minute to connect the name Paul Farmer, and then it clicked.
eppur_se_muova
Feb 2022
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(38,002 posts)1. About Paul Farmer from author John Greene
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/21/how-paul-farmer-saved-millions-of-lives/
...News came on Monday of his sudden death, at age 62, in Rwanda. Paul was a father and a husband and a friend and a mentor to countless people. I was among them, and am devastated by his loss.
I dont really believe in heroizing individuals, but Paul was, for me and for many, a hero. As a medical anthropologist and physician, he was deeply committed to the belief that all human lives had dignity and that every person deserves access to high-quality health care. He lived this belief for his entire career.
As a clinician, he often walked miles to make house calls to ill patients; as an advocate, he worked tirelessly to expand health-care access; and as an author, he wrote many invaluable books.
In 1999′s Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, he explored how poverty drives infectious disease and ill health, especially multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, or MDRTB, and HIV. Opposition to the aggressive treatment of MDRTB in developing countries may be justified as sensible or pragmatic, he wrote, but as a policy it is tantamount to the different valuation of human life, for those who advocate such a policy would never accept such a death sentence themselves.
I dont really believe in heroizing individuals, but Paul was, for me and for many, a hero. As a medical anthropologist and physician, he was deeply committed to the belief that all human lives had dignity and that every person deserves access to high-quality health care. He lived this belief for his entire career.
As a clinician, he often walked miles to make house calls to ill patients; as an advocate, he worked tirelessly to expand health-care access; and as an author, he wrote many invaluable books.
In 1999′s Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, he explored how poverty drives infectious disease and ill health, especially multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, or MDRTB, and HIV. Opposition to the aggressive treatment of MDRTB in developing countries may be justified as sensible or pragmatic, he wrote, but as a policy it is tantamount to the different valuation of human life, for those who advocate such a policy would never accept such a death sentence themselves.
RockRaven
(14,974 posts)2. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder is a good book about Dr Farmer
Published 15-20 years ago, so obviously there has been more to his career/life than what is captured there, but a good read nonetheless.
eppur_se_muova
(36,269 posts)3. Ditto on that ... it took me a minute to connect the name Paul Farmer, and then it clicked.
Someone so dedicated to good dies so young, while evil people like Murdoch just keep going. Why doesn't this convert more people to atheism ?