Paul Farmer Quotes
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.
Farmer, Paul. Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. University of California Press, 1999.
Dr. Adcock ran a telemedicine center at the Unitversity of Mississippi which broght expert medical care to over 200 rural health clinics in Mississippi. Rural America has a major physician shortage and Mississsippi rural areas are aming the most physician short communities in America.
Wealthy Americans are far healthier and live longer than poor Americans.
This notorious quotation was the first time anyone had ever used the term "death panels". As Wickipedia says,"Death panel" is a term that originated during the 2009 debate about federal health care legislation to cover the uninsured in the United States. Sarah Palin, former Republican Governor of Alaska, coined the term when she charged that proposed legislation would create a "death panel" of bureaucrats who would decide whether Americans—such as her elderly parents or children with Down's syndrome—were "worthy of medical care." When Palin was challanged to show where in the proposed Obamacare bill, there was any mention of dealth panels or anything like them, Palin's spokesperson pointed to Section 1233 of bill HR 3200 which would have paid physicians for providing voluntary counseling to Medicare patients about living wills, advance directives, and end-of-life care options. But there was absolutly nothing about withholding medial care. Just the opposite Obama care guaranteed medical care to many millions more Americans regardless opf age or medical condition. However, the bill was ovr 2000 pages long and very few people had read most of it, including the members of Congress who voted for and agaisnt it. A number of conservatives repeated the false accusatuins (See Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) Quotation 644139. One poll showed that after it spread, about 85% of respondents were familiar with the charge and of those who were familiar with it, about 30% thought it was true and Palin's new term won the dubius distinction of winning the "Lie of the Year" award. Despite the fact that it was totally false, in order to win Obamacare be a single vote, the President had to eliminate the part of the bill that allowed payment to physicians to take the time and explain to patients and/or their families, the various options of palliative treatment during the last months of life. Many people thought that the doctors would form death panels.
Paul Edward Farmer is an American medical anthropologist and physician. Farmer holds an MD and PhD from Harvard University, where he is the Kolokotrones University Professor and the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is co-founder and chief strategist of Partners In Health (PIH), an international non-profit organization that since 1987 has provided direct health care services and undertaken research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. He is professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
