I had lots of teachers encourage me. And I still know some of them, my high school teachers. But one of them encouraged me. She said, “Well, what do you want to do?” I said, “I want to be a doctor.” And she asked me where I wanted to go to school, and so I named all the Florida public universities which seemed within reach, financially. And she said, “Well, maybe you ought to apply to Duke, and maybe you’ll get a scholarship.” And I did both those things. I applied and got a scholarship. Her name is Wendy Tellone, and she’s still involved in public school teaching. I think she’s still in Florida.
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Paul Farmer
Physician and medical anthropologist; co-founder of Partners In Health
United States · 1959–2022
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American infectious-disease physician and anthropologist who co-founded Partners In Health in 1987 and built community-based treatment programmes for tuberculosis and HIV in Haiti, Peru, Rwanda and Russia. He chaired the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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