I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure that illiterate children remain so, and preventing the resuscitation of the public health sector in the country most in need of it. Lunacy is what it is.

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

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.

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

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.

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