Some knowledge acquired this unit:
• 200,000 people in the U.S.A are iatrogenic (Source: Class discussion, Andy & Lucas)
• 50 million Americans have no health insurance (Source: Sicko)
• An American hospital will treat a homeless person but will not give them a prescription (Source: Casey & Andy)
• In Haiti it cost $20,000 to treat a certain disease where in America it cost $6 million
The source that has been most helpful in this unit was the book “Mountains Beyond Mountains” this helped me the most because it was an inspirational story of someone who was fulfilling himself. It also showed medical practices in 3rd world countries versus the USA’s manner of approaching health. This helped me the most because it contrasted not having resources because of absolute destitute versus not having resources because of greed and unfair distribution. I believe comparing is a good manner to show what is absent or present in certain locations versus others. I also think this helped the most because I was interested because I know what the practices are like in our country and I am intrigued by how they work in other places.
I think an aspect that is crucial that we visit before the end of the unit is how our body physically reacts before death (because in many cases we do thing to ease the going) and what we think the definition of death is and how we determine that. There is a good movie by national geographic that is only 45 minutes called (Moment of Death), it is also available of netflixs. I also think some kind of class conversation would be nice I miss those!!
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