But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activist….

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me..

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat..

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

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 ….

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

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as b….

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to….

Ebola has not yet come into contact with modern medicine in West Africa. But when protocols for the provision of high quality supportive care are fol….

There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning b….

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody..

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been don….

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build ….

I can't sleep. There's always somebody not getting treatment. I can't stand that..

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of….

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory..

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 countrie….

I'm not an austere person..

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