Norwich Man Steps Back, But Works Go On in Honduras
Katie Beth Ryan for the Valley News, December 8, 2012:
Several years ago, Peter Mason attended a speech given by Dr. Paul Farmer, the co-founder, along with former Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim, of the international health organization Partners in Health. The model Farmer and his colleagues use to improve the quality of life for the world’s poorest people — by first treating immediate health needs, then building clinics and training local people as community health workers — has received international praise, yet it didn’t strike Mason, a physician at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital in Lebanon, as entirely novel…