Paul Farmer Quotes

The world is rich enought today that the idea of millions of children dying of disease is unacceptable. We have the resouurces and know how to prevent this.

As soon as a disease is diagnosed, we still need someone to deliver the care.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.

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.

Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume they'll have available to them if they get sick.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

If your baby is going to die and it doesn't have to, it shouldn't matter how much money you make.

Some things I don't compromise on. Health care is one of them.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?

In the United States, I feel like polio doesn't exist, but it very much does. I've been to many countries and saw how lucky we are that we can go straight to the doctor or the ER in the U.S. I would love for moms in other countries to not experience my fears.

The citizens of this nation gave us - my wife and I - a health care plan that saved our daughter's life.

What is really important is to educate people how to protect themselves and how to ensure that, despite their poverty, they can get tested and access drugs. So I just hope that those who can will make those drugs available.

Health care is, at its core, about improving the odds of life in its struggle against death. Of extending that game which we will all lose, each and every one of us unto eternity, extending it another year or month or second.

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

With world health, every life you save is a wonderful thing, so it's not this question of whether you solve it or you don't. The chance of completely solving the problems has long odds. But really, the thing is that you get to save the first child, the second child, the third child. You can just feel good about that.

Every woman should have access to the healthcare that she needs.

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.