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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.

I'm One Of Six Kids, And The Eight Of Us Lived For Over A Decade In Either A Bus Or A Boat.

For Me, An Area Of Moral Clarity Is: You're In Front Of Someone Who's Suffering And You Have The Tools At Your Disposal To Alleviate That Suffering Or Even Eradicate It, And You Act.

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 Medical Care Or Clean Water.

If You Look Just At The Decades After 1934, You Know It's Hard To Point To Really Inspired And Positive Support From Outside Of Haiti, To Haiti, And Much Easier To Point To Either Small-minded Or Downright Mean-spirited Policies.