Paul Farmer Quotes & Sayings
44 most famous Paul Farmer quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 65 year old American educator born on Oct 26, 1959.
“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.”
“The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.”
“So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.”
“I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.”
“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.”
“You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.”
“The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.”
“Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.”
“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.”
“I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.”
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