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For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
Paul Farmer
Someone
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Suffering
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Moral
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
Paul Farmer
Health
,
Care
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Poverty
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.
Paul Farmer
Medical
,
Care
,
Political
It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.
Paul Farmer
Medical
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Care
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Enough
The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.
Paul Farmer
Best
,
Blame
,
Different
But if you're 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
Health
,
Care
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Simple
I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.
Paul Farmer
Medical
,
Care
,
Mean
I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.
Paul Farmer
Kids
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Either
,
Lived
The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.
Paul Farmer
Health
,
Words
,
Problem
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.
Paul Farmer
Health
,
Problems
,
Sense
Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.
Paul Farmer
Again
,
Appeal
At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.
Paul Farmer
Time
,
Different
,
Same
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.
Paul Farmer
Parents
,
Involved
,
Causes
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 didn't have them anywhere else.
Paul Farmer
Nature
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Society
,
Medical
I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.
Paul Farmer
Model
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Haiti
,
Rebuilding
I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.
Paul Farmer
Seen
,
Medicine
,
Heights
I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.
Paul Farmer
Mean
,
Doctor
,
Bus
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.
Paul Farmer
Same
,
Reason
,
Culture
I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.
Paul Farmer
Forward
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Help
,
Easy
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.
Paul Farmer
Happen
,
Next
,
Within
I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.
Paul Farmer
Social
,
Theory
,
Impact
I'm not an austere person.
Paul Farmer
Person
,
Austere
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.
Paul Farmer
Often
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Last
,
Historical
I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it... I've gone through a number of coups, the storms of 2008, I thought, you know, that I'd seen things as bad as they were going to get, and I was wrong.
Paul Farmer
Bad
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Through
,
Thought
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.
Paul Farmer
Health
,
Care
,
Done
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Biography
Nationality:
American
Type:
Educator
Born:
October 26
, 1959
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