Tuesday, November 27, 2007

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.

1 comment:

Quadri said...

We forgot to add Quadri and Angie at the end like we usually do!!!