Extra Credit: A Doctor without Boarders

Paul Brockman is a trainer in treating Ebola as well as a project manager, for Medecins Sans Frontier, also known as MSF. He spend one year in Papua New Guinea treating people with Ebola as well as malaria. Paul Brockman likes to give aide mainly to Haitians and is hoping to go service there alongside his mother. He states that MSF purpose is to “restore people ability to make own choices. He also believe that the Ebola epidemic would not have been so serve if the country and the world was more flexible, acknowledgeable to the disease, and know the right procedures in caring for it. That countries should support and donate money to MSF to help take care of these epidemic and keep them from getting severe, and helping educate these third world countries to take care of these sickness with the appropriate procedures. He had made a harsh but true statement that if the United States can spend so much money toward dog food then they can donate as much money to MSF to help this people in third world countries. Ebola is not as severe as it mention in media, it is not as infectious and dangerous as scabies. As well as does not have the leading cause of death, more women die from child birth than people do from Ebola.  Then he addressed the question of colonialism the best he could, but sort of got off topic with is passion for people. He describe his understanding about it, that people who stay longer lose the attitude to save the world because they become so dependent on other people. When people learn about humanity then they will be able to give back. Also there is a lot of complication in history that caused human anger, greed, thus affecting that area where the people lived. When people travel to this area or different areas, getting that exposure gives ones more compassion toward humans. He did agree that colonialism has made a mess of things, but we have to see the results of it in order to understand the community, how they organize themselves, to come to a common purpose. He began to explain how New Guinea people continue to live in the same area for many years and due to this they know their ancestor from many decades ago, unlike us American at the top of our head. His idea of why Ebola became a big epidemic because we were not looking at it when it was happening in various part of Africa, but we decided to focus on it when it occurred in America. This can also be reflected to CST how we need to think globally. If everyone was able to think globally about Ebola the epidemic probably would not have lasted as long as it did or been such an outrage of event the media proposed it to be. Thinking globally about this would have prepared everyone better in handling Ebola, and taking the appropriate procedures.