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It’s easy for me to take good health care for granted. Easy to want good care for myself and my loved ones. It is easy to forget that so many linger in a nightmare of disease, malnutrition, and violence in faraway places.
In 2003, Pulitzer Prize-winning Western Massachusetts author Tracy Kidder wrote “Mountains Beyond Mountains,” a biography of the globetrotting Partners In Health co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer. After Farmer’s death in Rwanda at 62 last month, Kidder shared his memories of the celebrated humanitarian with WAMC.
Dennis Shields, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Platteville, has been named president of the Southern University System and chancellor of Southern University and A&M College.