Book Summary: Mountains Beyond Mountains

  • To make big changes you need to start changing one small thing at a time. At times this approach might not seem practical nor the outcome remotely plausible
  • In contrast to solving 80% of the problem and giving up totally on the 20%
  • Serving the poor is more important than soothing your own ego
  • Learn to accept constant failure and set backs
  • To make changes, you need to understand the local culture and context so as to make changes from within
  • Epidemics of the illness usually occur after social upheavals, in the ensuing overcrowding, poor hygiene, and malnutrition. Medicine is a social science and politics is medicine on a large scale
  • Cuba (a poor country) has the best health resource per capita

Book references

  • Pathologies of Power

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