Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Guess the Country

For the past 10 years, during late weekends in July, the fairgrounds in Wise have been transformed into a mobile and makeshift field hospital providing free care for those in need. Sanitized horse stalls become draped examination rooms. A poultry barn is fixed with optometry equipment. And a vast, open-air pavilion is crammed with dozens of portable dental chairs and lamps.   

A converted 18-wheeler with a mobile X-ray room makes chest X-rays possible. Technicians grind hundreds of lenses for new eyeglasses in two massive trailers. At a concession stand, dentures are molded and sculpted.

America.

Rural Medical Camp Tackles Health Care Gaps
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  • 10 comments
lavenderfae9

lavenderfae9

August 5 2009, 17:44:18 UTC 11 years ago

I have a friend who is 60 years old, and went to Mexico to get his healthcare issues resolved. He has no insurance, and that was cheaper than trying to get things done here.
rowangolightly

rowangolightly

August 5 2009, 17:46:09 UTC 11 years ago

Wow.
catherinew

catherinew

August 5 2009, 18:22:38 UTC 11 years ago

Remote Area Medical Expeditions is a charity doing this kind of work in remote, rural areas around the world, including the rural U.S. They've recently expanded their work into large US cities, where there are a lot of people in need of basic healthcare.

Link to the 5 Gifts That Give More we've developed through RAM.
ravan

ravan

August 5 2009, 20:32:50 UTC 11 years ago

Very Cool! Their actual site: Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps.
bodhifox

bodhifox

August 5 2009, 22:43:45 UTC 11 years ago

We were supposed to have one here but it got cancelled because of the flu scare.
veronica_milvus

veronica_milvus

August 6 2009, 08:41:59 UTC 11 years ago

oh dear, oh dear.

Something Must Be Done.
siliconshaman

siliconshaman

August 7 2009, 13:23:37 UTC 11 years ago

best health care system in the world, if you can afford it...
if you can't it's pretty much on a par with most third world countries.
ysabetwordsmith

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

August 7 2009, 18:35:06 UTC 11 years ago

I think it is wicked to let human beings suffer and die for someone else's personal or corporate aggrandizement.
siliconshaman

Re: Yes...

siliconshaman

August 7 2009, 20:46:52 UTC 11 years ago

Agreed, I think it's shocking that money trumps ethics every time in the corporate world, and for my response to those that decry socialised medicine I direct their attention to my icon.
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

August 8 2009, 04:21:15 UTC 11 years ago

*laugh* I quite agree with your icon.

I shall begin to consider the plaints of Congressmen as potentially valid when they dispose of -- or share with everyone -- their exquisite socialized medicine program. Until then they are vile hypocrits who are hogging resources while leaving their constituents to suffer and die.

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