When Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his occupancy at Massachusetts General Hospital, the chief of drug made a offer Would he postpone a prestigious fellowship and spend a time helping to produce an association to bring health care to homeless citizens? Jim took the job because he felt he could not refuse. But that time turned into his life’s calling. Tracy Kidder spent five times following Dr. O’Connell and his associates as they served their thousands of homeless cases. In this illuminating book we travel with O’Connell as he navigates the megacity, offering medical care, socks, haze, empathy, humor, and fellowship to some of the megacity’s most exposed citizens. He emphasizes a style of drug in which cases come first, joined with their providers in what he calls “ a system of musketeers. ”

important as he did with Paul Farmer in Mountains Beyond Mountains, Kidder explores how a small but devoted group of people have changed innumerous lives by facing one of American society’s delicate problems rather of looking down.

Tracy Kidder is a man who have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the RobertF. Kennedy Award, among other erudite prizes. His books include Mountains Beyond Mountains, Strength in What Remains, The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, Old musketeers, Hometown, and A Truck Full of plutocrat.

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