Quotes by : Paul Farmer

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine....

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make....

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria....

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed....

So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no....

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.....

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients....

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless....

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are moved....