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.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a belief in the equality of all individuals regardless of their location, advocating for universal standards in healthcare.
Paul Farmer emphasizes the importance of treating all individuals equally, regardless of where they live. He believes that healthcare recommendations should be consistent across different regions, reflecting his commitment to the idea that everyone deserves the same quality of care, whether in affluent areas like Manhattan or disadvantaged ones like Haiti.
In practice
In a speech about healthcare equity, this quote could highlight the need for accessibility regardless of location.
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 done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.
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 class, culture, race or nationality.
With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.
It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.
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.
There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives
It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.
Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it.
What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.
Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.
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