Thread by @WesElyMD

1/🧵 Paul Farmer has died.

It is so heartbreaking 💔. Let us collectively mourn his passing - one of the greatest #PublicHealth figures in the history of Medicine.

His @PIH is a tribute to a kinder gentler way to love each other.

More…

https://twitter.com/PIH/status/1495806101769670658

2/ Dr. Farmer started his vocation of #SocialJustice by serving the beautiful people of Haiti, the world’s 1st Black republic. He looked in their eyes & saw their needs…HIV, malaria, Tb, hunger, poverty, neglect.

In response he took action…

(paintings below by my daughter)

3/ Paul Farmer is the central figure in Kidder’s 📚 “Mountains Beyond Mountains.” If you haven’t read it, order now.

Through his drive and insights we learned to say “Yes” to bringing modern medicine to the most remote settings of human life on Earth 🌍

4/ “Farmer doesn't care if no one else follows his example. He's still going to make these hikes. If 7 hours is too long to walk for two families, you're saying their lives matter less than some others', and that idea is what’s wrong with the world.”
#MountainsBeyondMountains

5/ In my life, he became a beacon of hope & direction. Over the last 2 decades, when I fall down in studying ways to expand & improve on standards of care in ICU medicine for the world’s sickest patients, Paul & @PIH are always my inspiration to get back up. I’m forever thankful.

6/fin
#PaulFarmer’s legacy lives on not just because of the above book & #NGO.

More importantly, he lives on in the minds & hearts of the people whose lives he made better….as he told Ophelia Dahl…“one person at a time.” RIP

Kenbe fem (“Stand firm,” Haitian Creole)