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James Orbinski is a renowned physician born in 1960. He has made significant contributions to the field of international medical aid, particularly during the refugee crises in Ethiopia and Rwanda. Dr. Orbinski is known for his commitment to medical humanitarianism and his care for the suffering.

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“As Albert Camus wrote, the doctor’s role is as a witness – to witness authentically the reality of humanity, and to speak out against the horrors of political inaction... The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.”

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“The genocide (in Rwanda) was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible, was the absence, the erasure, of seeing the other. Of knowing, of feeling, of being with the other. And when that's removed, then politics can become genocidal.”

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“Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose ourselves in them. If we are the stories we tell ourselves, we had better choose them well.”

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Book:An Imperfect Offering: Dispatches from the medical frontline

Source: An Imperfect Offering: Dispatches from the medical frontline

“The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.”

Forget Silence Crime Indifference Inhumanity

Author:James Orbinski

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Born: 1960
Known for: Physician
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