How Mom’s death changed my thinking about end-of-life care – It seems counterintuitive that the health care system sometimes fails when the doctors feel as if there is nothing else to do but what already has been done and allows the person to die. there have always been conversations on end-of-life care specifically because sometimes people choose to keep the dead alive. The publisher, Charles Ornstein went through something similar with his mother. As she was on her death bed with ventilators helping her breathe he started second guessing the health care systems. Before becoming a healthcare reporter, he decided to dig deeper into what could be done. There he discovered there had been incidents where the doctors sometimes knew there was one more treatment twhy not try that, a case of doctors misdiagnosing someone’s brain death, and having previous experience with his father almost dying of cardiac arrest where the doctors told them he was not going to make it. This is not saying every doctor is corrupt though, as he and his family did decide to try to do further tests to see if there was any potential of her making it. There wasn’t in the end she was plugged off life support. This also raised the question of Doctors trying to do it quicker for the money? In reality, some doctors do and others do not, but in the end, it is the loved ones’ decision of how far it will go for the one on end-of-life care.

A Nigerian writer mocks US disease concerns, saying that Africa should screen Americans for measles- It seems counterintuitive that the US would be lacking in their vaccinations when they are always checking for travelers to have theirs. During the Ebola outbreak of 2015, Elnathan John made a statement saying that the US should be screened before going to Africa. This is due to America wanting to screen everyone coming from Africa for Ebola before coming into the US. The claim is that there is an inconsistency in the laws because the citizens did not have all the vaccines people out of the states had to have. To add to this studies showed that many kids were to rely on their pediatrician for childhood shots, unlike other countries where there are inoculation campaigns that give the vaccine. With the United States being so fearful of spreading diseases maybe it should be the other way around due to their lack the vaccination of children who could later grow up to be sick.

Is Walmart really going organic and local?- It seems counterintuitive that somewhere like Walmart would ever become fully organic, but they have had great sales of organic food. Walmart is partially a grocery store, selling 18% of the groceries sold in the US. In 2006 it started selling more organic food and in 2007 it became one of the places most visited rather than any other grocery store. The company’s whole goal with this though was to spend less. In 2010, they changed to getting produce from small and medium farms where they sold $1 billion worth of produce by the end of 2015. Walmart was later exposed for gaining credit for something it had been doing for years. The only thing they would have to do to keep selling from local farms is to open more stores closer to other farms. Walmart was then asked what farmers they bought from, all that were listed were not organic the way it was believed. The problem with organic foods is that the quantity wanted is not sold. Walmart also does not state how many products are organic. In the end, the main things being sold as organic were milk and baby food. Walmart exists to profit not to socially please people as well. The sales will always depend on what the people want, that is where the profit is made and priorities are at.