Word: farmerly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...anyone can be said to have taken the red pill in his professional life—to have unflinchingly faced the darkest face of human mortality in an immediate, hands-on confrontation—it is Farmer...
...average day at his Clinique Bon Saveur in Haiti involves treating desperately sick adults and children, “most of them TB or HIV patients with a bit of malaria thrown in,” he says. In the brief moments between patients, Farmer will confer with political leaders about grave issues of public health...
...years in Haiti, constantly exposed to ill patients, Farmer casually mentions that he’s had malaria “a couple of times. Well, maybe more than a couple.” He’s also managed to contract “the usual diseases that goofy anthropologists or incautious students get,” though he has somehow avoided acquiring the drug-resistant tuberculosis he often treats...
...Instead, Farmer has spent the last 20 years staring down the world’s most urgent medical problems...
...When Farmer first visited Haiti, a year after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in medical anthropology from Duke in 1982, he says he “had no clear idea of what I wanted to make of my life...