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Sto caricando le informazioni... Rough sleepers : Dr. Jim O'Connell and his quest to create a community of care (edizione 2023)di Tracy Kidder
Informazioni sull'operaRough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people di Tracy Kidder
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Tracy Kidder can always tell a story in his writing and we are eventually focused primarily on Tony, an in and out Rough Sleeper who plays such a central roll in Dr. Jim O'Connell's truly incredible work trying to help the homeless in Boston. I kept wondering if maybe, instead of trying to house the homeless in apartments, at least many of them would be better off in a home situaiton....the way some elderly people are now being put in group homes, with someone in charge...kind of like a housemother, with family meals as well as medical issues tended to. Leaving the streets cuts them off from their friends who are experiencing the same street life and apartment isolation becomes impossible. Absolutely no easy answers to problems that arise from so many different situations, but often originate in truly horrific childhoods. Difficult read, but one that gives human faces and histories to "the homeless". If you've ever wondered what it is like to survive on the absolute fringes, this is the book to read. Very depressing, however - that can't be avoided if you pick this up. As the author bleakly puts it, "the only cure for homelessness woul be an end to many of the country's deep and abiding flaws." I admit, I just skimmed most of this book which covers the work of Dr. Jim O' Connell in Boston. Dr. O'Connell works with the homeless in a clinic that has grown under his administration. He goes out on the streets and deals with people where they are. I was probably expecting more about the homeless people themselves - as to how they arrived in the situation they are in. However, there are several individuals such as a tall man named Tony who are featured. Life is hard, the answers aren't easy. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston's homeless community--by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains "I couldn't put Rough Sleepers down. I am left in awe of the human spirit and inspired to do better."--Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone Tracy Kidder has been described by The Baltimore Sun as a "master of the nonfiction narrative." In Rough Sleepers, Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story of Dr. Jim O'Connell, a gifted man who invented ways to create a community of care for a city's unhoused population, including those who sleep on the streets--the "rough sleepers." When Jim O'Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, the chief of medicine made a proposal: Would he defer a prestigious fellowship and spend a year helping to create an organization to bring health care to homeless citizens? Jim took the job because he felt he couldn't refuse. But that year turned into his life's calling. Tracy Kidder spent five years following Dr. O'Connell and his colleagues as they served their thousands of homeless patients. In this illuminating book we travel with O'Connell as he navigates the city, offering medical care, socks, soup, empathy, humor, and friendship to some of the city's most endangered citizens. He emphasizes a style of medicine in which patients come first, joined with their providers in what he calls "a system of friends." Much as he did with Paul Farmer in Mountains Beyond Mountains, Kidder explores how a small but dedicated group of people have changed countless lives by facing one of American society's difficult problems instead of looking away. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This was a really excellent book, but so difficult to describe. Kidder does a great job of profiling one man and his work, as well as zooming out and exploring the multifaceted challenges in truly eradicating homelessness, while telling you story of person after person affected by health problems, trauma, substance abuse, and more. Dr. Jim would be the first person to tell you he's not a saint - but he does work hard to bring health services to a population most would like to ignore, and he does it with grace and compassion. Indeed, he compares it often to the myth of Sisyphus, and feeling like you're starting over from square one over and over again. But he keeps going, keeps working, and for some folks, it really does make a difference. ( )