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But if youre asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justic

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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If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know its hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies. – 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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You cant have public health without a public health system. We just dont want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system. – Paul Farmer

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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. – Plautus

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Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business. – Judy Biggert

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[I]t seems as if pain were the prayer of the nerve for healthy blood. – Moritz Heinrich Romberg, A Manual of the Nervous Diseases of Man, 1840, translat

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Weve had Town Hall meetings, weve witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the Presidents health care bill. And the bottom line is the people dont like this bill. They dont want it. – Eric Cantor

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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well. – Plato

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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. – George Orwell

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I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy. – Linda Fiorentino

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