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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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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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Weve taken on the major health problems of the poorest – tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria – in four countries. Weve scored some victories in the sense that weve cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible. – Paul Farmer

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Health
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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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The field of Western medicine has seemingly become literally nothing but medicine. Are doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-service pharmaceutical vending machines? – Terri Guillemets, “Prescribed,” 2004

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Medical

Asthma is a disease that has practically the same symptoms as passion except that with asthma it lasts longer. – Author Unknown

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Medical

Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We dont have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women. – Claire McCaskill

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Medical

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. – Peter Shaffer

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Medical

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