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Nearly 200 members of the Brigham and Women’s family gathered in the Cabot Atrium on December 3 to celebrate the work of Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, and Pulitzer Prize winning author Tracy Kidder. In his latest book, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Kidder chronicles the life and work of Farmer, who has spent his life improving health care and combating disease in Haiti, Peru and other impoverished nations.
Among Farmer’s accomplishments: establishing a first-class hospital, Zanmi Lasante, in the middle of a squatter settlement in rural Haiti. “Brigham and Women’s is the greatest hospital in the world,” Kidder told attendees, “but Zanmi Lasante is the most miraculous hospital in the world.”
Barnes & Noble sold almost 200 autographed copies of the book at BWH during the afternoon and evening, contributing 10 percent of sales to the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, which is headed by Farmer.