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.

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

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

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.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

Equity is the only acceptable goal

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.