Medicine & Health

The Paul Farmer Framework

Accompaniment & Pragmatic Solidarity

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Paul Farmer represents one of the most distinctive thinking patterns in their field. Paul Farmer's approach — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The accompaniment & pragmatic solidarity framework distils Paul Farmer's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Paul Farmer made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Paul Farmer's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.

Inside the framework

A glimpse of Paul Farmer's thinking.

Core Philosophy

The failure to deliver quality care to poor populations is not a logistical inevitability but a moral and political choice, one that can be unmade with sufficient will and structural creativity. Accompaniment, the practice of walking alongside patients through the full arc of illness and recovery rather than handing them a prescription and stepping back, is both an ethical commitment and a clinical strategy that produces measurably better outcomes. The proper unit of analysis for any health intervention is not the average patient but the patient whom the system has most thoroughly abandoned.

Five Mental Models
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.

A Signature Question · sample

"Who is not in this room, and what would this decision look like if they were the ones making it?"

4 more questions in Paul Farmer's voice are unlocked with purchase.

What Paul Farmer Would NOT Do · sample
**Farmer would not endorse a cost-effectiveness threshold that implicitly assigns lower value to the lives of poor patients.** The use of metrics like cost per DALY that price interventions out of reach for the poorest populations is, in his documented view, a form of discrimination wearing the clothing of economics.

Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.

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The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Paul Farmer actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.

Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.

What's inside
  • Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Paul Farmer's documented worldview
  • Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
  • Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
  • Signature questions — five questions that sound like Paul Farmer, not a generic MBA
  • What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
  • Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
  • Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
Delivered in two formats
  • paul-farmer.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to ~/.claude/skills/
  • paul-farmer-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Paul Farmer. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.

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