Paul Farmer

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

— Paul Farmer

#bus #doctor #grew #i #mean

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 of class, culture, race or nationality. ↗

— Paul Farmer

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I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti. ↗

— Paul Farmer

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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 that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#alleviate #area #clarity #disposal #eradicate

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

— Paul Farmer

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I'm not an austere person. ↗

— Paul Farmer

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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. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#carefully #comments #conspiratorial #correct #haitian

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 the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#among #borders #divide #fact #great

One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid there that have not been effective. ↗

— Paul Farmer

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So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable. ↗

— Paul Farmer

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