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

Justice

Medicine

World

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.

Action

Loyal

Support

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

Appeals

Catholic

Doe

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.

Care

Poverty

Promise

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.

Challenges

Different

Hiv

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

Causes

Parent

Thinking

But if you’re asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

Justice

Medicine

Simple

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.

Real

Rights

Sick

Ebola has not yet come into contact with modern medicine in West Africa. But when protocols for the provision of high quality supportive care are followed, the case fatality rate for Ebola may be lower than 20 percent.

Ebola

Medicine

Supportive

Equity is the only acceptable goal

Acceptable

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Goal

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Depth

Design

Development

Different

Different Ideas

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Doe

Earthquakes

Ebola

Eight

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Goal

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Quotes by Paul Farmer

Paul Farmer

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

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.

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

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.

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.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

But if you’re asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

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.

Ebola has not yet come into contact with modern medicine in West Africa. But when protocols for the provision of high quality supportive care are followed, the case fatality rate for Ebola may be lower than 20 percent.

Equity is the only acceptable goal

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