Roxane and Laura

"Gringo" is the name assigned to foreigners, expecially someone of United states given by people in Peru.The Purivian physician refer to Farmer as a "fake grigo" because , since he is from United States and that there is no TB there, it is incredible to see him know a lot about TB and its treatements. The Moderates refer to farmers' speech as provocative because he is contradicted in the indirect way the total efficiency of the DOTS. he said DOTS is just treating TB and not MDR which continues to expand. it seems as if he is telling the Moderates that DOTS is not the best treatment of the TB and that with the advance of technology, it will be better to find another treatment which can cover TB and MDR.
Paul and Kim's activities consisted of going to the Brigham pharmacy and taking as many drugs with them as they could in order to give to people who can not afford to buy those drugs. They had Tom White pay for the drugs later on. We think it was a good method since it was a non-profit activities; they were helping poor people to get treated. Farmer contracted " Hepatitis A" .We think Farmer allowed himself to feel sick because he wanted to better understanding the symptoms and also to try to feel like people who has this sickness to better understand them.
The arguments and choices healthcare professionals have to make when treating the sick are that : since they have short ressources, they can not provide medecine for everyone. So they need to make a choice of who is going to be treated and who can not have advantages to those treatements. What area of population should be treated. That is a very difficult decision to make. we do not like either approach because as humans we do not have the power to decide who should live and who should die. so for us it will be wise to find another treatment ( which can even be less expensive as DOTS since they have technology) to satisfy everyone. Jim used "Never understimated the ability of the small group of committed individuals to change the world" as a quoted from Margared Mead who is an antropologist ( she worked to understand human culture).