If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

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

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

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.