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Paul Farmer
“It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.”
Paul Farmer

Paul Farmer
“Statistics or graphs,’” are not optimal to understand the ‘experience of suffering.’” (qtd in Sutton 11)”
Paul Farmer, M.D.

Tracy Kidder
“How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translation, "God gives but doesn't share." This meant... God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us.”
Tracy Kidder, Paul Farmer (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

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