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Piot (former undersecretary general, UN; director, London Sch. of Tropical Medicine) has written an inspiring and at times humorous memoir. Growing up in Belgium near the birthplace of 19th-century saint Father Damien, who was renowned for his work in Hawaii's leper colony, Piot was determined as a child to have exotic adventures and help the poor. Ignoring advice he received as a medical student that there was no ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More