HW 29 - UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Domains: process of illness and dying in America

• DISCONNECTION OF EXPERIENCE
o Natural vs. medical
o Incoherence
o Isolation (hospital)
o 4 wall limitation
o Fear of disintegration & the discomfort felt
o (National geographic moment before death)
o (Medical) DRUGS – movie Kauffman personal experience
o “If we did not shit we couldn’t eat”
o bad food in hospitals (wood blog)
o No color mentor- personal experience
o Of restoration gone 2 extreme we have forgotten that we are the planet and we need submersion for restoration
• CARE HAS BEEN INDUSTRILIZED
o Hospitals
o Our only location for treatment has becoming breeding of diseases (class notes)
o Machines (mountains)
o Drug industry (beyond mount)
o $15,000 for drug plan in 2 cover MDR in Peru
o Drug: capreomycin cost 29.90$ in Boston… $8.80 in pqris
o Payment of doctors not based on patient health (Michael Moore)
o “Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.” “Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing but medicine on a large scale.” “It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation” VIRCHOW “ if disease is an expression of individual life under unfavorable conditions, the epidemics must be indicative of mass disturbances of mass life.”
o Fast treatment (Kauffman)
• SURVIVAL OF THE RICHEST, suppression by the government
Survival of the Richest: In our world health depends upon economical class, “Countries with the steepest grades of inequality and the greatest poverty have the biggest aids problems ”.
o Poverty leads to sickness. World wide (mountains beyond)
o Government approved Health insurance ranking and prices (Obama & history)
o Pricing of the body (Michael Moore)
o 36,000 middle 16,000 ring finger
o Cost-effectiveness analysis (mountains)
o Hospital cost (mountains)

“To Farmer, the distinction between prevention and treatment was artificial, created, he felt, as an excuse for inaction”
“Of all the world’s errors, he seemed to feel, the most fundamental was the “erasing” of people, the “hiding away” of suffering. “My big struggle is how people can not care, erase not remember”

“We are talking about wealth that we’ve never seen before. And the only time that I hear talk of shrinking resources among people like us, among academics, is when we talk about things that have to do with poor people.” – JIM Kim
“spent between $150 and $200 to cure an uncomplicated case. The same cure in the United States, where most TB patienys were hospitalized, unsually cost between $15,000 and $20,000. My local hospital in Massachusetts was treating about 175,000 patients a yeat an an annual operating budget of $60 million. In 1999 zanmi lasante had treated roughly the same number of people, at the medical comlex and out in communities and had spent about $1.5 million, half of that in the form of donated drugs.”