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Where a typical doctor would have just tried to increase vaccinations, Farmer—influenced by Lafontant—wanted to wipe out institutionalized poverty, the root cause of sickness in Haiti. When Farmer fights disease, he takes an holistic view of the problem.
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“Paul is a model of what should be done. He is not a model for how it should be done. Let’s celebrate him. Let’s make sure people are inspired by him. But we can’t say anybody should or could be just like him.”
Mountains Beyond Mountains is told primarily in the past tense, with the exception of Chapter 26 in which the author uses the present tense to recount his last visit with Paul Farmer in Haiti. The title Mountains Beyond Mountains comes from a Haitian proverb: "Beyond mountains there are mountains." Mountains are a metaphor for problems in life.
