![]() ![]() “I think the big story,” Farmer said, “is that we have to keep pushing forward health system strengthening, whether we're talking about Sierra Leone or the United States.” That, Farmer said, is when he decided to write a book.įevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History was released on November 17 and details the Ebola outbreak’s origins and aftermath the stories of patients, clinicians, and caregivers the international response Farmer’s own memories from Ebola treatment units and the historical chapters underpinning it all.Īnd in a book about a historic epidemic, published during a historic pandemic, Farmer writes about where we go from here, in the thick of COVID-19 and ongoing, extreme health inequities across the world. “I thought, ‘If I'm going to interview him about such an awful experience, it better be for someone other than just myself.’” ![]() “I've been an anthropologist as long as I've been a doctor, and it's very rare that someone says that,” Farmer continued. And what he said next was: ‘I’d like you to interview me about my experience.’” “We started talking and he told me he’d lost 23 members of his family to Ebola. “It was the night I met Ibrahim,” Farmer recalled, referring to one of the survivors. Paul Farmer was in Freetown, Sierra Leone, breaking bread with a group of Ebola survivors as the world’s largest epidemic of the virus raged across the country. ![]() ![]() In November 2014, Partners In Health Co-founder and Chief Strategist Dr. ![]()
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