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Paul Farmer Quotes
Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me. - Paul Farmer Quotes
And I can also show you that people from all walks of life agree that someone who is sick deserves, in principle, compassion and care. - Paul Farmer Quotes
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, thats where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. - Paul Farmer Quotes
At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease. - Paul Farmer Quotes
At the same time, the fact the worlds poor are calling upon us to help is a marker, in my view, of the limitless potential of human solidarity. - Paul Farmer Quotes
But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists. - Paul Farmer Quotes
But if youre asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick. - Paul Farmer Quotes
Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they cant get medical care or clean water. - Paul Farmer Quotes
Even die-hard fans of the market acknowledge that TB care should be free. Why? Because its an airborne disease and treatment equals prevention. - Paul Farmer Quotes
For me, an area of moral clarity is: youre in front of someone whos suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act. - Paul Farmer Quotes
I critique market-based medicine not because I havent seen its heights but because Ive seen its depths. - Paul Farmer Quotes
I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor. - Paul Farmer Quotes
I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality. - Paul Farmer Quotes
I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but Im not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim. - Paul Farmer Quotes
I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory. - Paul Farmer Quotes
Im not an austere person. - Paul Farmer Quotes
Im one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat. - Paul Farmer Quotes
Ive been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully. - Paul Farmer Quotes
In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the worlds poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide. - Paul Farmer Quotes
It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care. - Paul Farmer Quotes
It was apparent from the early 80s that in order to do something lasting and significant in Haiti we would need a springboard in the States. - Paul Farmer Quotes
Shuttling back and forth between what is possible and what is likely to occur is instructive and a lot of what shapes our sentiment. - Paul Farmer Quotes
Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti. - Paul Farmer Quotes
So I cant show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable. - Paul Farmer Quotes
The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view. - Paul Farmer Quotes
The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically. - Paul Farmer Quotes
The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. Its the system and its limitations that are to blame. - Paul Farmer Quotes
The thing about rights is that in the end you cant prove what should be considered a right. - Paul Farmer Quotes
Weve taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. Weve scored some victories in the sense that weve cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible. - Paul Farmer Quotes
Well, I dont think that the role of the pharmaceutical industry is any different from that of other transnational corporations. - Paul Farmer Quotes
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