Dr. Bernard Kouchner’s expertise is not found in any medical text. He calls himself a “specialist in the collapse of society.” He’s spent a career working in places like Biafra and Kosovo, trying to repair the wounds of war, as well as the political upheavals and the human rights violations.
Bernard Kouchner co-founded Medecins sans Frontieres, the French humanitarian organization honored with the Nobel Peace Prize. His main prescription is: Always listen to the voices of the suffering, and not to the rhetoric of the politicians. He says that even though he is also a politician, a former French minister of health. Right now he insists the voices that need to be heard belong to the people in Iraq. War and medicine. The controversial remedy of intervention.
Guests:
Dr. Bernard Kouchner, former Head of the U.N. Interim Administrative Mission in Kosovo, former French Minister of Health and founder of Medecins Sans Frontieres.