"...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work."

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Source : Paul Farmer (2004). “Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor”, p.157, Univ of California Press

Paul Farmer

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“Women are always murdered and maimed, and theyâ€™re never given their rightful place as lead characters! And I think [creator Michael Hirst] has just written what should have been written a long time ago. There shouldnâ€™tÂ beÂ anything that different aboutÂ Vikings, but there is, because thereâ€™ve just been so many shows that have not stepped up to the plate and given female actors and female characters equal footing.”
“A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me.”
“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.”
“I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.”
“And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it.”
“A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.”

Source : Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”
“For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.”

Source : "Tyler Hoechlin Talks How Things Have Evolved for His Character, Interacting with New Characters, and More on the Set of TEEN WOLF Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 29, 2013.
“Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.”

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