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If I'm at the front line and refuse to treat a patient, it's considered a crime. As a physician, this is my oath. I'm going to treat everyone regardless.

From Joanne Liu

Sometimes in your career, you are at the right place at the right moment. But you have to be aware that eventually you may no longer be the right person for that position. So build your succession and foster for it while you are still at the peak of you career.

From Joanne Liu

You need a balance in life. You just cannot be all the time on an adrenalin peak. You need to recharge.

From Joanne Liu

I'm completely allergic to being politically correct.

From Joanne Liu

When I was young, and I wouldn't eat, my parents would say, 'Eat, or else you're going to become a little Biafran.'

From Joanne Liu

People say I'm tough and too blunt. I'm a product of my organization. MSF is a blunt, tough, no-nonsense organization.

From Joanne Liu

Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.

From Joanne Liu