Best Paul Farmer Quotes
- I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda. Better
- Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects. Development
- For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate… Act
- Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp… Anywhere
- 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… Care
- But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to… Approach
- 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… Best
- I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal. Access
- I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat. Boat
- 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… Access
- The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're… Biggest
- We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in… Aids
- I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti. Constructive
- 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… Activism
- Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed… All
- 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… Across
- If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should… All
- In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of… Across
- 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… Believe
- You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want… Build
- We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it.… Backs
- WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a lot to be… All
- It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. Bad
- I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi. American
- The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world. All