“I began to come into close contact with poverty, with hunger, with disease, with the inability to cure a child because of a lack of resources… And I began to see there was something that, at that time, seemed to me almost as important as being a famous researcher or making some substantial contribution to medical science, and this was helping those people.” Poverty Book:The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey Source: The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey