Themes

One of the numerous themes in Mountains Beyond Mountains is poverty. Dr. Paul Farmer spends eight out of the twelve months of the year working in the heart of Cuba. He gets thousands of patients desiring his medical expertise and he spends day and night treating them. Farmer states he simply cannot sleep at night knowing there are patients out there in need of treatment. Citizens from all over Cuba come to his medical hospital because they know he cannot turn down any patient. When he arrives at works hundreds of wounded Cubans are waiting outside, and he takes the most injured of them all. Paul Farmer would easily be a hotshot Boston doctor year round earning thousands of dollars but he chooses the inncoent victims of Cuba instead, to give back to world and make it a better place.