123 Quotes by Paul Farmer

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

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

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

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

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.

Shuttling back and forth between what is possible and what is likely to occur is instructive and a lot of what shapes our sentiment.

I am grateful for the chance to turn this into a movement. I am inspired to be part of a growing movement to eliminate poverty.

It is one of our more stable cities in terms of a population that has stayed, ... It's not a city where people leave in large percentages or arrive in large percentages, except as tourists. So I think you're going to see a very strong impulse among the people there to rebuild.

We have opened a hospital that was abandoned since the genocide 10 years ago and put some hundreds of patients on anti-retroviral therapy, for example, in the middle of rural Africa. We have also, needless to say, focused on whatever it is that ails the people who are coming to this hospital and the clinic sites around. And, that is everything from distress during labor, to malaria, of course to other projects. We do not have any doubt that this project will be a great success.