It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.

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.

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

I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.

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

I'm not an austere person.