What is Dr Paul's personal devlopment throughout this book?
What are Dr Paul's strengths, and what problems does he need to overcome in order to help the people of Haiti?
Paul Farmer is the protagonist of Mountains Beyond Mountains. He’s noted as a renown doctor and anthropologist. Although he could have the life of bustling American hospitals and millions of dollars like many of his colleagues at Harvard Medical School, Farmer is an ardent humanitarian who can’t conceive a living for himself that doesn’t include taking care of the ill and injured in Third-World countries. Some of Farmer’s biggest struggles have sprung up from an attempt to help the exploited and destitute. It’s noted that he doesn’t believe in God, yet Farmer advocates Catholicism while also questioning it deeply. His unique connection between science and religion makes him a piece that fits organically within Haiti’s medical field, where he is a proponent for the world’s understanding of the Haitians’ relationship with Voodoo and Western medicine. Farmer struggles with the fact that with every patient he picks to aid, he’s denying treatment to many others.
