http://www.medrants.com/archives/2591 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.medrants.com/archives/2591/comment-page-1#comment-96995 Judy Centurelli Wed, 30 Nov 2005 02:36:34 +0000 http://medrants.com/?p=2591#comment-96995 I Just finished reading Tracy Kidder's book, "Mountains Beyond Mountains, the story of Dr. Paul Farmer and his work in Haiti and other places in the world. According to this book, we can thank Dr. Farmer and his organization, PIH, for his role in getting WHO and other organizations to accept new treatments for multi-drug resistant strains of TB and for encouraging the drug companies to lower the cost of providing these treatments for poor, third world countries. I Just finished reading Tracy Kidder’s book, “Mountains Beyond Mountains, the story of Dr. Paul Farmer and his work in Haiti and other places in the world. According to this book, we can thank Dr. Farmer and his organization, PIH, for his role in getting WHO and other organizations to accept new treatments for multi-drug resistant strains of TB and for encouraging the drug companies to lower the cost of providing these treatments for poor, third world countries.

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