"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."

Creativity, Ideas, Blame, Countries, Doctors

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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."

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"You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story."

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"What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ['Give me more images']"

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"Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing is a jealous and needy lover."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Some people have a handful of ideas, but not enough time to realize them."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

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"I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall."

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"Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."

William James, American Philosopher

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"Our creativity is a universe within this universe, certainly a much bigger one!"

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"We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out."

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

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

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"But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick."

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"We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible."

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"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."

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"In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide."

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

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"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."

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"At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease."

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"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 activists."

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