[It] was seemly [of Paul], I thought, resisting beatification. But then he told me, People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be. . . . I felt a small inner disturbance. It wasn’t that the words seemed immodest. I felt I was in the presence of a different person from the one I’d been chatting with a moment ago, someone whose ambitions I hadn’t yet begun to fathom.
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Paul Farmer was a 20th-century American medical anthropologist and physician. Paul Edward Farmer was an American medical anthropologist and physician. Farmer held an MD and PhD from Harvard University, where he was a University Professor and the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Read more on Wikipedia →