The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

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.

I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.

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.

The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health.

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.