Tracy kidder's the soul of a new machine

“The nightmare of homelessness can seem both overwhelming and slightly abstract to the safely housed. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family Jim O’Connell, connect us to unforgettable individuals, who allow us to get closer to the suffering that is only one part of what we need to see." “What does it mean, in our time of inequality, to care for the vulnerable in ways that strengthen the better angels of our common humanity? Tracy Kidder’s book, and the work of Dr. 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.

Nearly forty 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. The inspiring story of a doctor who helped to create a medical system for the homeless people of Boston - by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains.