Ashley Farmer
Anthropology 121
Wendy Brown
Why did Dr. Farmer describe himself as “a poor people’s doctor?”
A) Dr. Farmer worked without pay in Haiti, doctoring peasants.
B) Dr. Farmer worked at a Women’s Hospital volunteering as a radiologist
C) Dr. Farmer on his spare time took care of the poor at a grubby church
D) Dr. Farmer traveled from town to town in Haiti to take care of the sick.
E) Dr. Farmer helped treat Haitians who are infected with Aid with his own money.
In the beginning Dr. Farmer called himself “a poor people’s doctor”, all though he didn’t quite fit the preconception, he clearly liked fancy restaurants, heavy cloth napkins, and a good bottle of wine. He also dressed like a big shot when working at Brigham in Boston. But …show more content…
What made him decide to build one?
A) Ophelia had showed Paul the poverty in Haiti, and the need for medical attention.
B) Mirebalais was about awful outcomes, and Haiti had lack of proper medical care.
C) Paul was able to help a woman receive a blood transfusion due to malaria.
D) The census in the town showed a low rate of deaths due to lack of medical attention.
E) Paul wanted to help the people of Haiti with medical needs vs them using …show more content…
The priest also built different schools, and programs for literacy in several small towns. He shows Paul around Haiti, in which he was struck by the way people were actually living in poverty. People used tin roofs and rags to stop leaking. As Paul travels through Haiti hitch hiking rides, a woman and her baby have died from malaria, because of lack of money to receive a full blood transfusion. He then knew the hospital was not for the poor, because medical attention was denied without payment upfront. He then decided to raise money to buy the hospital its own blood-banking equipment from donation back home. At some point Paul finds out the hospital would charge patients to use its blood banking equipment, which upset him, and decides to build his own hospital. When in Pere Lafontant, he was unhappy about Mirebalais clinic he was unhappy about the way patients were treated and the doctors didn’t care about the patients and their awful outcomes, but Paul wanted better for the people. During this time he hired five junior high Haitians to collect census information of two neighboring villages of Cange. The number were as Farmer had predicted, due to lack of food, diseases, and other deaths. He also notes the people relied on religion and beliefs to meet their needs. He doesn’t want to change anything within one’s culture but observe and learn to help the people of Haiti. Pages 77,
Anthropology 121
Wendy Brown
Why did Dr. Farmer describe himself as “a poor people’s doctor?”
A) Dr. Farmer worked without pay in Haiti, doctoring peasants.
B) Dr. Farmer worked at a Women’s Hospital volunteering as a radiologist
C) Dr. Farmer on his spare time took care of the poor at a grubby church
D) Dr. Farmer traveled from town to town in Haiti to take care of the sick.
E) Dr. Farmer helped treat Haitians who are infected with Aid with his own money.
In the beginning Dr. Farmer called himself “a poor people’s doctor”, all though he didn’t quite fit the preconception, he clearly liked fancy restaurants, heavy cloth napkins, and a good bottle of wine. He also dressed like a big shot when working at Brigham in Boston. But …show more content…
What made him decide to build one?
A) Ophelia had showed Paul the poverty in Haiti, and the need for medical attention.
B) Mirebalais was about awful outcomes, and Haiti had lack of proper medical care.
C) Paul was able to help a woman receive a blood transfusion due to malaria.
D) The census in the town showed a low rate of deaths due to lack of medical attention.
E) Paul wanted to help the people of Haiti with medical needs vs them using …show more content…
The priest also built different schools, and programs for literacy in several small towns. He shows Paul around Haiti, in which he was struck by the way people were actually living in poverty. People used tin roofs and rags to stop leaking. As Paul travels through Haiti hitch hiking rides, a woman and her baby have died from malaria, because of lack of money to receive a full blood transfusion. He then knew the hospital was not for the poor, because medical attention was denied without payment upfront. He then decided to raise money to buy the hospital its own blood-banking equipment from donation back home. At some point Paul finds out the hospital would charge patients to use its blood banking equipment, which upset him, and decides to build his own hospital. When in Pere Lafontant, he was unhappy about Mirebalais clinic he was unhappy about the way patients were treated and the doctors didn’t care about the patients and their awful outcomes, but Paul wanted better for the people. During this time he hired five junior high Haitians to collect census information of two neighboring villages of Cange. The number were as Farmer had predicted, due to lack of food, diseases, and other deaths. He also notes the people relied on religion and beliefs to meet their needs. He doesn’t want to change anything within one’s culture but observe and learn to help the people of Haiti. Pages 77,