The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you… — 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… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti. — 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
The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis… — 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
Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan,… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it... I've gone through a number of coups,… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting… — 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
