Crossing One Mountain, Another Mountain
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At the age of twenty-three, Paul Farmer found his life's purpose: bringing modern medicine to those who need it most. While in medical school, Farmer spent half of his time practicing medicine in Haiti and earned his MD, cum laude, and PhD in anthropology from Harvard University. After graduation, he spent four months of the year teaching and seeing doctors in Boston, and spent the rest of the time traveling around the world: He built a modern clinic in the poorest area of Haiti to provide medical services to people in extreme poverty; he took care of tuberculosis and malaria patients in Peru; he persuaded the WHO and the World Bank to provide large amounts of funds to prevent the outbreak of tuberculosis in Siberian prisons... He traveled around the world, working tirelessly to benefit medical treatment for the poor. Dr. Farmer's actions are a true reflection of the Haitian proverb "over one mountain, there is another mountain" - when you deal with one problem, another problem will appear soon. All you have to do is keep moving forward and keep moving.
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