Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People (Kidder Tracy)(Pevná vazba)

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.

Nearly 40 years ago, after 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 Jim defer a prestigious fellowship and spend a year as a doctor to homeless citizens? Jim took the job because he felt he couldn't refuse. But that year turned into his life's calling--to serve the city's unhoused population, especially the "rough sleepers," people who sleep on the streets, in the rough. Today, Dr. Jim and his colleagues lead an organization that includes clinics affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital and
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