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You cant have public health without a public health system. We jus

You cant have public health without a public health system. We just dont want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system. – Paul Farmer

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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 cant get medical care or clean water. – Paul Farmer

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Medical
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But if youre 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. – Paul Farmer

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Health
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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 by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didnt have them anywhere else. – Paul Farmer

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The study also included the disturbing revelation that most of the troops who reported having mental health problems also reported that they did not seek or did not receive care for their problems. – John M. McHugh

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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmens compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it. – Meg Whitman

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Health

As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the rivers health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans. – Ron Kind

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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. – Saint Teresa of Avila

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motivational

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure. – Brett Favre

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The beauty of “spacing” children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones — which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. – Sydney J. Harris

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Parents

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them. – Man Ray

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