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Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real pr

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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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 adequate medical care. – Paul Farmer

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Imagination
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Paul Farmer
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Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, thats where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. – Paul Farmer

Category:
Health
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Paul Farmer
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So I cant 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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Health
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. – German Proverb

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Medical

I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable. – Samuel Wilson

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Medical

Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his fathers influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination. – Richard Reeves

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Medical

Remember, Im a doctors daughter. So obviously Im interested in all medical things. – Nancy Reagan

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Medical

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Reality is not always probable, or likely. – Jorge Luis Borges

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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says “I was beaten,” he does not say “My men were beaten.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding. – Percy William Bridgman, The Way Things Are

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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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