This morning...this SATURDAY morning, I woke up early so that I could go to see Dr. Paul Farmer speak. Before January, I had never heard of Farmer or Partners in Health, the health care organization he co-founded. After reading about him in my Global Poverty class, however, I have come to see him as someone who is to be admired greatly for his work with the poor. Farmer has opened clinics in Haiti, Peru, Russia, Africa, and south Boston, where he provides health care for those who cannot afford it. Although it is generally understood that medicine is a commodity and not a right, Farmer believes, as most people do, that everyone has the right to life. Therefore, he and those he works with use their talents to fund these programs that allow the poor to
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