Rough Sleepers

Kidder, Tracey NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to creat a program to care for Boston’s homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains."I couldn't put Rough Sleepers down. I am left in awe of the human spirit and inspired to do better. —Abraham Verghese, author of The Covenant of WaterNearly 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? That year turned into his life’s calling—to serve the city’s unhoused population, especially the “rough sleepers,” borrowing the British term for people who sleep on the streets, in the rough.Today, Dr. Jim and his colleagues lead an organization that includes clinics affiliated with M