I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.
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Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.
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The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.
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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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The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
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I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.
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I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.
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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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I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.
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