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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

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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 public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

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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 can't get medical care or clean water.

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I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

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I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.

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I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.

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I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

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I'm not an austere person.

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I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

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I've 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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: October 26th, 1959

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