Quote by Paul Farmer
I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you kno

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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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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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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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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Medical
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I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctors office was full of portraits by Picasso. – Rita Rudner

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Medical

Let your entrance into the sick room decrease, not increase, the irritability of your patient. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Medical

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. – Ben Hecht, Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers

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Medical

When you talk about obesity, theres so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. Theres a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar. – Peter Shilton

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Medical

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The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. – Victor Hugo

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Private religious speech cant be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech. – Samuel Alito

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