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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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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

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Health
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Paul Farmer
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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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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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Medical
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In the nineteenth century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes. – Author Unknown

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Medical

Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We cant always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it. – Robert Urich

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Medical

The Christians Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. – Mark Twain

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Medical

I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska. – Ken Wilber

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Medical

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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art. – Charles Baudelaire

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By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country. – Ron Lewis

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Remembering is painful, its difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom. – Paul Greengrass

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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. – Willard Beecher

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