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

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.

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.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

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

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.