Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

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

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.

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.