Happy New Year to all of the participants in our Fall 2007 FYE course, Global Exploration. I hope that you all had an enjoyable and relaxing winter break. All the best for a productive and challenging Spring 2008 semester.
Lee
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Helping to feed others: filling boxes at Kids Against Hunger
Our learning community members raised over $750.00 and thereby qualified to fill 15 boxes (216 bags of highly nutritious meals in each box for a total of 3240 cups of food) today at the Kids Against Hunger warehouse in Mankato. Above we are standing next to the pallet with our 15 boxes. We worked for about 2 hours and 15 minutes after viewing the Kids Against Hunger video. On the far right is Tim Stromer, the manager of the facility in Mankato. You can contact the Mankato facility here: Kids Against Hunger - Mankato, 500 Patterson Avenue, Mankato, MN 56001.
To the left you can see our learning community team posing on a break from our work packaging nutritious food for distribution. We were told that this particular shipment may be going to Haiti.
Chapters 24, 25 & 26
Chapter 24
Farmer's work at brigham Boston and international were kind of the same thing because his main goal was to take care of the sick people. Working at Boston was though easier than his int'l work because Boston was equipped and staffed with the highest current standards of medicine, the book even talked about Farmer thinking of not giving up the job at Boston because it was so gratifying.
Chapter 25
Though Alix had to drive that way, if the cancer hadn't spread as fast as it did, the patient would have been saved. We guess Alix drove in that manner inorder to get to the hospital as fast as possible to save the boy and the ironic part of it is she wanted to save his life but did it in a very carefree manner.(though it never resulted in anything negative)
Chapter 26
Delivery of medical care in Boston was facilitated with sufficient trained medics and equipments but that of Haiti was filled with insufficient ones, so in case of too many patients, the most severely wounded with the most chance of survival will get attended to and then the others next(they might not even get attended to, depending on the time spent on the first one) but since sufficient medics are present in Boston, they all get health care simultaneously.
Example:
In the treatment of triage, one performs triage by attending first to the severely injured with the most chance of survival, the others may die unattended to, however, in well staffed areas like Boston, triage isnt supposed to imply withholding care from anyone, rather, its identifying the patients with gravest danger and giving them priority.
Farmer's work at brigham Boston and international were kind of the same thing because his main goal was to take care of the sick people. Working at Boston was though easier than his int'l work because Boston was equipped and staffed with the highest current standards of medicine, the book even talked about Farmer thinking of not giving up the job at Boston because it was so gratifying.
Chapter 25
Though Alix had to drive that way, if the cancer hadn't spread as fast as it did, the patient would have been saved. We guess Alix drove in that manner inorder to get to the hospital as fast as possible to save the boy and the ironic part of it is she wanted to save his life but did it in a very carefree manner.(though it never resulted in anything negative)
Chapter 26
Delivery of medical care in Boston was facilitated with sufficient trained medics and equipments but that of Haiti was filled with insufficient ones, so in case of too many patients, the most severely wounded with the most chance of survival will get attended to and then the others next(they might not even get attended to, depending on the time spent on the first one) but since sufficient medics are present in Boston, they all get health care simultaneously.
Example:
In the treatment of triage, one performs triage by attending first to the severely injured with the most chance of survival, the others may die unattended to, however, in well staffed areas like Boston, triage isnt supposed to imply withholding care from anyone, rather, its identifying the patients with gravest danger and giving them priority.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Cash Money & Card Money (aka Mario & Brittany)
Chapter 24: They are quite similar, because he is trying to help as many people as he can. However, Farmer might be more concerned with his international work especially in Haiti because they don't have the proper medical resources.
Chapter 25- It is ironic because Alix is in driving in a way that could injury or possibly kill someone, just to get to a place that is saving people's lives.
Chapter 26- Getting treated in Haiti is quite different than in Boston considering there isn't enough medical supplies for all the patients. The equipment is quite old. Also, most patients have to travel miles away from their home to get treated. Sometimes Farmer has to go to the patients home to treat them.
Chapter 25- It is ironic because Alix is in driving in a way that could injury or possibly kill someone, just to get to a place that is saving people's lives.
Chapter 26- Getting treated in Haiti is quite different than in Boston considering there isn't enough medical supplies for all the patients. The equipment is quite old. Also, most patients have to travel miles away from their home to get treated. Sometimes Farmer has to go to the patients home to treat them.
Chapters 24-26
Chapter 24:
They are about the same but it's possible in America to quickly change the issue in Brigham whereas at an international perspective it will be more difficult because they do not have many health resources. So Farmer could be more concerned with other countries.
Chapter 25:
The reason it was ironic was because they are racing to save a persons life and Alix was in danger of taking peoples lives.
Chapter 26:
To get medicine from Boston to Haiti it could take weeks if not months. Some patients need the medicine right away. For example, Farmer sent a man, John, from Haiti to Boston to get more accessible treatment but unfortunately he died shortly upon arriving.
Deja and Yoon Beum
They are about the same but it's possible in America to quickly change the issue in Brigham whereas at an international perspective it will be more difficult because they do not have many health resources. So Farmer could be more concerned with other countries.
Chapter 25:
The reason it was ironic was because they are racing to save a persons life and Alix was in danger of taking peoples lives.
Chapter 26:
To get medicine from Boston to Haiti it could take weeks if not months. Some patients need the medicine right away. For example, Farmer sent a man, John, from Haiti to Boston to get more accessible treatment but unfortunately he died shortly upon arriving.
Deja and Yoon Beum
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Roxane and Laura
Farmer's work in Brigham in Boston is almost the same compared to the international work because he is trying to help a lot of people as much as he can in both place but we can notice that he is more concern about international people ( mostly Haitiens people) mainly because they do not have many access in medical care like patients in Boston.
About the irony of Alix's driven in a dangerous manner to get a place for Farmer to help save patient's lives, we can say that by driving like that you can hurt somebody else but he did not; he was driven fast or dangerously if not they might have not be able to save John. Also , we can see in the sense that by driving dangerously, rapidly, his goal was just to save John, so he did not put in his mind that driven like that can have a bad effect, that he can kill more than one people while wanted to save the live on just one person.
Delivery of medical care can be different in Haiti ( from Boston) in the sense that patients have to walk many miles to get treated and sometimes Farmer himseld is obliged to go out in order to treat them. the technology is also very old. For instance, Farmer was taking supplies like medecines from Boston in order to go until Haiti with these medecines on the purpose to treat the patients.
About the irony of Alix's driven in a dangerous manner to get a place for Farmer to help save patient's lives, we can say that by driving like that you can hurt somebody else but he did not; he was driven fast or dangerously if not they might have not be able to save John. Also , we can see in the sense that by driving dangerously, rapidly, his goal was just to save John, so he did not put in his mind that driven like that can have a bad effect, that he can kill more than one people while wanted to save the live on just one person.
Delivery of medical care can be different in Haiti ( from Boston) in the sense that patients have to walk many miles to get treated and sometimes Farmer himseld is obliged to go out in order to treat them. the technology is also very old. For instance, Farmer was taking supplies like medecines from Boston in order to go until Haiti with these medecines on the purpose to treat the patients.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
A-team fares well at World Trivia contest, November 14, 2007
Our World Trivia team, the A-Team, brought home the bronze on Wednesday night. A-Team members were Quadri, Laura, Angie, and Brittany. Mr. Tesdell joined the team after teaching his night class. The World Trivia contest, held in CSU 253, featured some of the best informed students on campus competing for prizes. The questions came in four categories.
Initially the A-Team were told that they had not placed, but upon further checking, the quiz administrators noticed that the A-Team had in fact placed third. The team members were awarded coffee and coupons for meals at a local restaurant. Good job, A-Team!
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