In “Letting Go,” Atul Gawande writes about several different patients with terminal cancer and end of life care. He writes about multiple people but focuses on one patient named Sara Monopoli. Sara was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer, which means her cancer was metastasizing or spreading. She had just delivered her first child with her […]
Month: March 2016
Reading Journal 4
“Is There Life in Health Care Reform?” Most people think not. Even with Obama care in effect currently, there technically still is no reform. Elizabeth Drew’s article is basically about the back and forth of getting one simple bill passed. Democrats in the Senate and House wanted the new health care reform bill in 2010 to […]
Reading Journal 3: Ethnography
Reading about cancer wards is probably not the best thing to read about and it also doesn’t put you in a good mood. In “The Cancer Ward: Hope and Endurance,” the author had a lot of details and descriptions of the ward and how cancer patients lived most of their time there. He first started […]