Chapters 22-23

Chapter 22
1. Scholarly buttressing is the need to verify everything Farmer said in a speech and/or paper to make sure he was quoting facts.
2. A lot of people think he has a "chink in his moral armor" when it comes to his family life (he doesn't spend a lot of time with them). However, a lot of people use this "flaw" so they feel better finding something in him that could actually be considered a "flaw".
3. We think that Farmer is put in a hard situation. In order to give Farmer's patients the care he wanted to give and thought they deserved, he had to love the children as much as his own daugther. At the same time though, it doesn't seem fair to his wife or his daughter to love other children the same, and even spend more time with his patients than with his own daughter. So, Farmer's put in a very hard situation.

Chapter 23
1. Farmer says that the rich can always call themselves democratic because they have the means and resources available to them in order to be democratic. However, we don't really understand what he means.
2. Americans are lazy democratics because in many cases they don't use the resources available to them to help those, like the poor and the sick, who don't have those resources. They use the resources to their own advantage many times.

By Quadri and Angie