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- “…large-scale social forces—racism, gender inequality, poverty, political violence and war, and sometimes the very policies that address them—often determine who falls ill and who has access to care.”
- "the holy grail of modern medicine remains the search for the molecular basis of disease."
- "In some senses, the model is simple: clinical and community barriers to care are removed as diagnosis and treatment are declared a public good and made available free of charge to patients living in poverty."
- "The poor are the natural constituents of public health, and physicians ... are the natural attourneys of the poor."