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
It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are moved by the idea that… — 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 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
Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects. — 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
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
