Medical Help in Haiti

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Medical help in Haiti is still not up to par like it should be.  This news paper article tells us how organizations like the Red Cross, are sugar-coating the conditions of these suffering Haitians to the public eye.  We should not believe everthhing that is told to us, but we should look into some issues for ourselves.  Mark Hayward, an emergency medicine physician assistant at St. Mary's Hospital in Leonardtown, teaches us this lesson.

Hayward wanted to be deployed to help the injured Haitans.  He was told by the Red Cross that he was not needed.  They told him that they had enough people over there, and they had everything under control.  Hayward still had an urge to go to Haiti, so eventually he went with a group of doctors called Team Rubicon.  When he got there, he saw complete chaos.  Nine hundred Haitians had still not been given medical care in the camp he arrived to.  He describes some of the horrific wounds and injuries he saw that needed medical attention as soon as possible.  He uses pathos to capture the audiences attention, by describing these wounds.  This should trigger emotions of sorrow, sympathy, and even angry with the general public.  With the help of his fellow teammates, they saw about two to three hundred injuried patients that day.  This number gives them high logos, and strengthens the arguement of them being rightfully over there.  The Red Cross sugar-coated the conditions of these suffering Haitians. This is a reason to challege their ethos, because if they tell the "partial" truth to one American pursuing to help these Haitians image what they would tell the general public.

We should all take initiative some time in our life.  Because of the initiative Mark Hayward took, several Haitains' lives were saved.  We can't always depend on the media for accurate information, because sometimes they may only be telling us what they want us to know.  The American Red Cross was in a bad situation at the time, but does that give them the right to lie?  This article challenges the Red Cross ethos.  This article should make you second guess any information via the media now.