I can't sleep. There's always somebody not getting treatment. I can't stand that. Paul Farmer More Quotes by Paul Farmer More Quotes From Paul Farmer We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat. Paul Farmer teamfightingwinning 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 tuberculosischallengeslooks 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 victorytakencountry I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal. Paul Farmer careshould-havemean 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 raceclassbelieve 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 povertycarepromise I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda. Paul Farmer haitirebuildingthinking I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling. Paul Farmer poorproblemjobs lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights. Paul Farmer healthpeopleschool The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health. Paul Farmer researchteachingmissing In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide. Paul Farmer lastsorderfacts 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 sickrealrights 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 hivdifferentchallenges I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti. Paul Farmer haitihelpingthinking Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me. Paul Farmer appealscatholicdoe I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure that illiterate children remain so, and preventing the resuscitation of the public health sector in the country most in need of it. Lunacy is what it is. Paul Farmer blockcountrychildren Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects. Paul Farmer haitidevelopmentpeople 60% of workers surveyed said if their employer took action to support the mental wellbeing of all staff, they would feel more loyal, motivated, committed and be likely to recommend their workplace as a good place to work. Paul Farmer supportloyalaction 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 adequateorganizationimagination 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 eightsixkids
