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Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has bee

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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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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I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldnt be such a big deal. – 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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What a doctor wants… is practice. He shall have me. He will get more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred of your ordinary, commonplace patients, with only one or two diseases each. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889 — spea

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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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