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Ragins believes making a connection is more important than making diagnosis. In his opinion, a diagnosis does not help the patient like meaningful relationships do. He states that many of the patients at Lamp have been diagnosed numerous times and that, “As far as [Ragins] can tell, it hasn't done them any good.” Making a diagnosis and prescribing medicine, in Dr. Ragins’ mind, wasn’t the answer and that many of the people at his community just needed support and friends. Ragins believed they did not need to be “fixed,” like Lopez thought throughout most of the film.

According to Murray, some patients fight death, they use drugs, chemotherpy, radiation, surgical, or CPR. They believe that they can overcome their illness. Doctors recommend that people who can not be saved with treatment should just live their life with their family, enjoying the rest of their days. Therefore, the doctors have to know what is best for their patients. They should have treatment. When the patients spend a lot of money, this is not the way to overcome illness. For example, there was a women trying to overcome her

“How to Survive a Plague” is a documentary movie which depicts the early years of the AIDS epidemic and the efforts of ACT UP and other groups. ACT UP, founded in March 1987, is an advocacy group which supports legislation and medical research and treatment of AIDS-victims. The film used archived footage of news coverage, interviews, protests, meetings, and conferences to chronicle the struggles of AIDS activists from the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New York City. It focused on the efforts of these activists to obtain meaningful responses from medical

She says, “I want my children to know that their mother was not a victim” (3). In this speech she uses ethos by saying, “Tonight, I represent an AIDS community whose members have been reluctantly drafted from every segment of American Society” (1). She is saying that she represents anyone who has AIDS. Fisher is also credible to talk about this subject because of when she says, “In the place of judgement, they have shown affection” (2). Fisher is talking about how President Bush and Mrs. Bush have treated Fisher and her family no different then a person with AIDS or HIV. Mary Fisher is believable in the speech and able to relate to many different people, who either have AIDS or are HIV positive, also people who have a family member that is struggling with this disease.

The book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” brings up a problem in society that was a serious obstacle in the field of medicine in the 1950’s. This problem is that the individual rights of a human versus the general need of humanity. The general need of humanity is much more important than the rights of a human.

A Closer Walk is a film made by Robert Bilheimer, and it looks into the effects of AIDS on all those infected by the virus of HIV/AIDs all throughout the world. He focuses on those who are more likely to become infected by the virus woman, children, individuals in Africa and India and then he also talks about drug users in Ukraine and how more and more individuals are getting sick because they are sharing needles. The portion I found most intriguing was how these woman and children who are sick are the poorest of the poor are they are a minority such as the African American population in America. They cannot receive treatment because no one will give it to them unless someone else in an industrialized country pays for the treatment. Olivia

The story focuses on how Chanda and the people around her are affected by AIDS. In the community that Chanda lives in, mentioning AIDS is taboo, and when Chanda felt the loss of her loved ones, she had difficulty finding anyone to talk to. When it was revealed that Chanda’s mother had AIDS, Chanda wanted to change what her community thought of the disease, “I’m tired of lies and hiding and being afraid. I’m not ashamed of AIDS! I’m ashamed of being ashamed” (Stratton 181). Rather than tolerating the truth and hiding from her community, Chanda wanted to teach people that AIDS should not be taboo. She wants them to accept that AIDS is a reality and it is a disease many are affected by. Chanda, Mrs. Tafa, and Esther, who were not afraid of the truth, inspired people to be less sensitive when bringing up the topic of AIDS. Personally, it is understandable why the people in Chanda’s community don’t want to bring up the topic of AIDS. It is human nature to avoid what we fear as our natural instincts tell us to flee from reality. This is related to our human condition, as all humans are terrified by death. Although, if one person bravely stands, many others are empowered to stand up and face their fear. Through her story, Chanda taught the readers that acceptance can be empowering and cause a positive chain reaction of

It is a fact that we have a longer life expectancy than ever before. This has been achieved through years of thorough research, technological development, and most importantly resilient individuals. Doctors are constantly faced with different enigmas with no right or wrong answer. What first attracted me toward medicine was the desire to help and support, in particular, disadvantaged people. Coming from a country with an underdeveloped health care system has made me realised the impact it has on people’s life.

One important scene in the film ‘The Age of Aids’ is “Port Au Prince, Haiti”. In this scene it outlines the conditions in Haiti, which were very poor and it turn left the city defenseless against the new disease. In 70’s and 80’s the disease began to be seen by doctors and priests who were being sought after to cure a unseen disease which left the people with the “look of death, [making them] so skinny you could see their bones”. The scene then goes on to take a look at one of the first HIV clinics in Port Au Prince, which was opened in the roughest parts of town. One of the surprising things that this clinic found when they were looking at the patients coming in was that the mean they were analyzing had more

The article is conveying how orphans live and are affected by AIDS taking one, both or a loved one who is afflicted with AIDS. Surviving the death of a loved one ensures a hard life that is vividly verbalized by the orphans. VanRooyen, Frood, & Ricks will follow an organized and appropriate presentation of these orphans that live in sub-Saharan Africa.

Keeping a person alive by excessive treatment might devastate the family and make the dying suffer tremendously in the end. “Advance medical technology that seems to one person a godsend, extending life, may seem to another a curse that only prolong dying. Dignity can be devalued amid technology focused solely on the biological organism.”

In the film, “Age of AIDS”, there were several scenes that were quite impactful. In my opinion, the three most powerful scenes in the documentary film were: President Ronald Reagan‘s speech about transmitting HIV (1a), William Dodge triple cocktail trail (1b) and Bill Clinton’s handshake with HIV positive man in the Chinese conference (1c). These sections in the documentary were instrumental in conveying a compelling story about the effects of AIDS.

In That case the movie shows the Social View of Health by Patch entertaining the sick Children by making them laugh and forget about their pain also by helping Roodie overcome his fear of squirrels by believing in his phobia by helping him go to the bathroom. Furthermore, the movie also showed Patch talking to his councillor about his father being in the army and the councillor doesn’t care about it as he cares about the money more than the patient. In light of the above two of the quotes show a behavioural view to health as Patch interacted with Roodie to help him overcome his phobia apart from that the medical side of things were shown by Patch’s councillor not caring about what he was saying. Given the above points the movie did show a high understanding of the social view of Health in the movie in many ways throughout the

Whilst Close himself had asserted in 1968 that portraiture appeared to be “the dumbest out of date and shop worn of possible things you can do”, he realised that “the best time to paint is when people decide that painting is dead because all the traditions and conventions are up for grabs”. ‘Big Self Portrait’’ is a monochromatic photo-realist painting that depicts a 28 year old, arrogant Close who, head back and shirtless, stares out through glasses with a cigarette hanging from his mouth. The work is minutely detailed thus emphasising its photographic base and was created in layers using an airbrush filled with diluted black paint then scratched off with a razor blade and an electric razor. The enormous scale of the painting emphasises its

As much as there are good happenings in life, there are bad happenings as well. Overtime there have been new diseases and viruses that strike us unexpectedly and for the worst. One of the many epidemic viruses that shook our world was the virus known as HIV. When the virus HIV first hit the globe it was horrifying and everyone around the world was petrified for his or her life. For instance, folks believed it would be another plaque sequence where many people died like the drop of a dime. In fact, the virus was fatal in certain areas such as San Francisco and most common amongst homosexual males. Men were living with no hope for the future and had to plan to live their lives in the moment. However, all the doubts and unfaithful thinking stopped when a major break through and advancement was developed for HIV. For years the medical field did not know how to help people infected with the virus but after research and experiments were conducted they found their first advancement against HIV. The advancement is best known as protease inhibitors, specifically Ritonavir. Although this was not a cure, the protease inhibitor Ritonavir was an advancement that prolonged people’s lives. With this advancement folks could look towards and plan for the future since there was a better chance of them living longer with this kind of treatment opportunity. With that being said, there was a lot of information that had to be researched and studied in order to transpire this advancement. This