Chapter 17

In this chapter, it starts off with Ophelia sending a letter to Paul Farmer saying that she accepts and she's happy that he's married to Didi Betrand, a woman from Cange. In this chapter, it introduces Howard Hiatt who was a former dean of Harvard School of Public Health. With Farmer and Jim Kim running the operation for Peru and Haiti, since they lacked supplies such as medicine, they would steal medicine and put their lives to risk just to help those who have TB. Farmer was a such a busy and hardworking person that he would work on both the projects in Haiti and Peru, he'd fly in back and forth mostly every week. A key event that happens is that Farmer finds out that he has Hepatitis A. With this sickness he is holding, he still continues to work but doesn't tell his loved ones especially his mother or Ophelia because he knows forsure that they'd make him stop. One of the most important news said in the chapter is that the MDR project in Peru is progressing. Another thing is that Farmer has methods of second-line drugs that has proven to work better than the first line drugs, so some doctors start to adopt Farmer's second-line drugs.