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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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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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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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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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Medical
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The specialist is too commonly hypertrophied in one direction and atrophied in all the rest. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts. – Jacob Hacker

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Medical

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice. – Nana Mouskouri

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Medical

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher. – Peter Diamandis

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Medical

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