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Paul Farmer Quotes

American - Educator | October 26, 1959 -

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

Health Problems Possible Discourse

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

Culture Believe Will Class Race HIV

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

Health Service People Start Better

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

Me Again Much Conventional Does

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

Parents Think Never Activism I Think

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 can't get medical care or clean water.

Water Medical Sick Care Political

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

Medicine Heights Seen Because Depths

I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.

Doctor Mean Bus Up Grew TB

I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.

Think Better Focused Will Years See

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

Me Impact Say More Theory Social

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

Boat Decade Over Bus Lived Us

I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.

Over Years Historical Last Been How

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