Book · recommended on 1 episode
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder ISBN 1846684315
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Tracy Kidder ISBN 1846684315
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This book by Tracy Kidder came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Jonathan Reisman. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and in medical school found his life’s calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most.
“a book about him by tracy kidder that's really great mountains beyond mountains about how even when he was a medical student he was flying back and forth to haiti”— Jonathan Reisman
The guest here is Jonathan Reisman: A physician (medicine and pediatrics) and author of The Unseen Body who has practiced in remote places including the Alaskan and Russian Arctic, Antarctica, and the Himalayas of Nepal. He blends anatomy, global health, and travel into a writer's perspective on the human body. A physician-writer takes Lex on a wondrous, gross, and humbling tour of the human body, from sperm and feces to the heart and the meaning of life.
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