MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS Author Tracy Kidder Presented by

MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS Author: Tracy Kidder Presented by: The Brown Sistas

PROVERB � “Beyond mountains there are mountains” � Long defeat � Obstacles � Can’t solve everything, but can make a difference � Perspective

DR. PAUL FARMER � � � “Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing, but medicine on a large scale. Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community. The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them. Pathology, medicine, politics, anthropology. My model. ” Perspective-climbing mountains and understanding culture Wanting to help others Pay it forward Compass

� When you hear the word treatment what comes to mind? � What are the essentials you need to be well and to maintain your health or in other words what factors go into having good health?

THE DR. FARMER’S WAY OF TREATING/HEALING PEOPLE � “Here’s a good deed in progress and a perfect example of the Farmer method. First you perform what he calls the “distal intervention” and cure the family of TB. Then you start challenging the conditions that made them especially vulnerable to the TB in the first place. ” � Basic necessities � Curable things

MORE THAN MEDICINE � “And yet, when the results came in the cure rates for the two groups was dramatically different. Of the patients who had received free medicine, a mere 48% were cured. By contrast, everyone in the group that received the cash stipends and other services made a full recovery. ” � 78% of Haitians are poor (less than US$2 a day), and more than half (54%) live in extreme poverty (less than US$1 a day). � Transportation & technology

MORE THAN MEDICINE “Countries with the steepest grades of inequality and the greatest poverty have the biggest AIDs problems. ” -women education and social norms � 50% of primary school age children are not enrolled in school. � One-third of girls over six never go to school. � “Only in Haiti would someone cry out because they are hungry during a spinal tap. ” � Half of children under 5 are malnourished � Water-cholera and diarrhea �

WHAT WE WANT YOU TO TAKE AWAY � Don’t let the long defeat get you � Don’t do things for money or acknowledgment � Go for your passion � Can’t completely cure or change something but little things add up to make BIG things � Grateful

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