Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

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.

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.

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

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

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

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