I listened to this book narrated by the author and I thought that it was incredible. It's very clear that he's committed to the topic and I think that given the length of the book, that he was very thorough in what he talked about. I really wasn't expecting to spend so much time hearing about the experiences of people in different countries and the support for simultaneously stricter but more flexible ways of approaching global health.

It's not comfortable hearing about how many people died of AIDS or how health workers are sometimes killed in other countries because of conspiracy theories caused by the actions of the governments like the United States and Canada. Or how government leaders cause the deaths of citizens because they don't believe in science. I'm not saying that I 100% agree with everything the author talks about in this book, but he makes compelling points and I wasn't expecting such directness and clarity from a journalist who spent 25 years at the New York Times (given the current quality of reporting from the newspaper).

I would really like read more books like this.