I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Ebola has not yet come into contact with modern medicine in West Africa. But when protocols for the provision of high quality… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right? — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
