Citas de Paul Farmer

• The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

  Paul Farmer

  Nature, Ideas, Roots

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• Si el acceso a la atención sanitaria se considera un derecho humano, ¿a quién se considera suficientemente humano para tener ese derecho?

  Paul Farmer

  Health, Care, Human Rights

  Paul Farmer (2004). “Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor”, p.206, Univ of California Press

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• Para mí, un área de claridad moral es: estás frente a alguien que sufre y tienes a tu disposición las herramientas para aliviar ese sufrimiento o incluso erradicarlo, y actúas.

  Paul Farmer

  Suffering, Tools, Moral

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• With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

  Paul Farmer

  Achievement, Important, Working With Others

  Paul Farmer (2013). “To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

  Paul Farmer

  Essence, Ideas, Might

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• God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. You want to see where Christ crucified abides today? Go to where the poor are suffering and fighting back, and that's where He is.

  Paul Farmer

  Fighting, Giving, Suffering

  "Mountains Beyond Mountains". Book by Tracy Kidder, 2003.

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• If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

  Paul Farmer

  Spiritual, Problem, Hungry

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• Lo que sí puedo argumentar es que nadie debería morir de una enfermedad que es tratable.

  Paul Farmer

  Should Have, Disease, Arguing

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• That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.

  Paul Farmer

  People, Alive, Helping

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• Pero si me pide mi opinión, yo diría que un enfoque de justicia social debería ser central en la medicina y utilizarse para ser central en la salud pública. Esto podría ser muy sencillo: los sanos deberían cuidar de los enfermos.

  Paul Farmer

  Simple, Medicine, Justice

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• We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

  Paul Farmer

  Talking, People, Design

  "The Human Element: Melinda Gates and Paul Farmer on Designing Global Health". Interview with Caitlin Roper, www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

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• Las partes más pobres del mundo son, en general, los lugares en los que mejor se puede ver lo peor de la medicina y no porque los médicos de estos países tengan ideas diferentes sobre lo que constituye la medicina moderna. La culpa es del sistema y de sus limitaciones.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Medicine, Different Ideas

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• No puede haber sanidad pública sin un sistema sanitario público. No queremos participar en una competición absurda por los recursos. Queremos recuperar la capacidad del sistema.

  Paul Farmer

  Competition, Want, Resources

  "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

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• The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

  Paul Farmer

  Rights, Way, Humans

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• ...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.

  Paul Farmer

  Medicine, Justice, World

  Paul Farmer (2004). “Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor”, p.157, Univ of California Press

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• It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Rich Countries, People

  "Founder, Partners In Health". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 03, 2009.

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• There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

  Paul Farmer

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Agency

  Paul Farmer (2001). “Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues”, p.84, Univ of California Press

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• Equity is the only acceptable goal

  Paul Farmer

  Goal, Equity, Acceptable

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• 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.

  Paul Farmer

  Children, Ideas, Haiti

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• People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.

  Paul Farmer

  Trabajo, Pensamiento, Gente

  "Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World". Book by Tracy Kidder, 2004.

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• 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

  Country, Children, Block

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• Queremos estar en el equipo ganador, pero a riesgo de dar la espalda a los perdedores, no, no vale la pena. Así que luchamos contra la larga derrota.

  Paul Farmer

  Team, Fighting, Winning

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• Quiero decir, todo el mundo debería tener acceso a la atención médica. Y, ya sabes, no debería ser un gran problema.

  Paul Farmer

  Mean, Should Have, Care

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• El mayor reto de salud pública es reconstruir los sistemas sanitarios. En otras palabras, si nos fijamos en el cólera o la mortalidad materna o la tuberculosis en Haití, son problemas importantes en Haití, pero el mayor problema es reconstruir los sistemas.

  Paul Farmer

  Challenges, Tuberculosis, Looks

  "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

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• I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

  Paul Farmer

  Jobs, Problem, Poor

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