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

Equity is the only acceptable goal

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

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.

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

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.

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