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The Surgeon Who Stepped Off the Balcony

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For years, Dr. Paul Farmer watched from hospital balconies in Boston as medical students discussed tropical diseases in the abstract — malaria, tuberculosis, cholera —...

This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Hebrews 10:4-10.

For years, Dr. Paul Farmer watched from hospital balconies in Boston as medical students discussed tropical diseases in the abstract — malaria, tuberculosis, cholera — scribbling notes about symptoms they had never witnessed firsthand. The textbooks described suffering with clinical precision, but nothing changed for the patients dying in Haiti's Central Plateau. So Farmer did what no amount of conferences and papers could accomplish.…

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