6/22/2023 0 Comments Fevers feuds and diamonds review![]() But I think some kind of comparative scale is helpful. Well it's a funny term, as I could tell you appreciate from the way you said it, resource-poor settings, there are plenty of those in resource-rich nations, of course. How does Sierra Leone compare and West Africa compare to some of the other places that have less resources? So you and your team certainly have done a lot of work in resource-poor areas of the world. And I'm really glad we didn't because that was my entree. ![]() And we ended up not canceling the conference, even though it occurred in the very month that Ebola hit Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. And I was saying we have to have the second one somewhere in the middle of the clinical desert,, or the report won't have the force that we would want it to have. We had the first meeting at Harvard, the third one in Dubai. ![]() This is part of a Lancet Commission on surgical care in resource-poor settings. Well by happenstance, I happen to have been working to organize along with many colleagues a conference on surgical care in resource-poor settings. So how did you get involved in the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone in 2014? Farmer is an infectious disease doctor, Chair of Global Health at Harvard Medical School, co-founder of Partners in Health and an anthropologist. ![]() Paul Farmer, about his book Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds. What are the causes beyond the virus? Welcome to ReachMD Book Club. ![]()
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