Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health.

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.

At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

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