Preserve your Love for Science: Life of William A Hammond, American Neurologist Book

It's interesting how many reviewers comment on how hopeless and repetitive Maskalyk's experiences were. That is the nature of grinding poverty (it's not called "grinding" for nothing). That is the brutality of war. The terrible difficulty people face when they work in this situation, perhaps hoping to "solve" something, is that they discover they are so busy dealing with the alligators that they have no time to drain the swamp. I often think that those who create or enable this level of chaos specifically keep it that way, so that no one will be able to address the larger issues - we're too busy trying to keep people from dying or starving to death, one person at a time. It's the one-person-at-a-time thing that enables us to keep going, however; sometimes we actually do help. Sometimes someone, in the midst of their pain, helps US. And occasionally, a really big, heroic figure arises who actually manages to take on the system.

I personally find the Oscar Romero prayer relevant.