An expression of injustice

[knpark]

The biggest co-morbidity factor of TB is whether or not you can see a doctor regularly for six to twelve months in a row with no heavy financial burden.

[theeditor]

In south africa TB is so common that doctors just know it and even befoe being xrayed and sent for checks they immediately put you on tb meds. Tb is no joke. My friend had it and it took her a year to get over it and she says she still doesnt feel like she fully recovered. It's curable but not everyone is going to be the same after it.

[zyaicob]

"It's a disease that kills people because we let it" House M.D. taught me a lot

[ianbyrne]

I think most of the time I spend thinking about TB is because of John Green, and thank you John for that. It's important to point out these issues where they arise!

[eliedgecomb]

Fundamentally decent man, and I’m here for it.

[fishticksbog]

"I guess I... I'm afraid."

-Arthur Morgan

[jcthefluteman]

I knew TB was still around, but I didn't know this. That statistic is frightening and we need to be talking about it

[kristingallo]

The number of children who died from starvation or malnutrition is the one that always gets me. The amount of food waste from Vegas and Disney could feed entire countries.

[aleisterlavey]

"Money can't buy you health"
"People die because they can't afford the treatment"
Edit: autocorrect seems to be motivational today and made a can out of can't

[TheAnonymousMrGreen]

The morality of keeping healthcare from someone at a price is identical to the morality of ransom

[itsgonnabeanaurfromme]

In the Philippines, there are hospitals devoted to TB. There's one called San Lazaro hospital where one person dies every 15 minutes. And there's a ward specifically for HIV patients with TB.

[Potatofella]

"Take a gamble that love exists, and do a loving act."
-the sister to arthur morgan

[lotus_dream]

In Vietnam name we have a whole section in the hospital dedicated to people who have tb. And we are one of the countries that are improving

[meshezza]

I’m from the Uk and we had a very successful vaccine program for TB. Everyone was terrified of their BCG shot when I was at school as it does a bit of damage to the point it leaves a scar. The vaccine was so good we reduced cases to 0.3% per every cases and the program was stopped. However, due to high levels of immigration from high TB areas cases are on the rise. Thank god for the NHS I honestly don’t know how American citizens survive…. Injustice indeed my friend 😞

[barbarajordan]

In Florida, just 2 miles from a major medical hub, a co-worker was diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent home and was supposed to be absent for two weeks, except she decided to return to work early. Another woman in the building had had a serious case of TB before her and died.
I had a doctor's appointment that week my co-worker returned; and, finding out she returned too soon, I told my doctor she had, in fact, returned and I wondered whether TB would still be contagious as I had an infant at home. He was not happy and asked if I understood the impact of what I was saying. I told him I was sad to say yes, not so much for myself, but for my infant and what should I do.
The doctor reported this to the Health Dept., and the co-worker had to return to the doctor and then home. The whole building of employees had to be tested, and a Public Service Announcement had to be made locally.
An uncaring, selfish act could have infected us and into our families and social circles. This was not injustice but personal disregard for others and selfisness.
Trust me, we worry.

[MultiKswift]

I forgot what it is specifically called, but when my mom started working as a nurse she had to be tested to see if TB was in her system and it tested positive. She didn't have the active disease for lack of the right words I'll say that it was sleeping. But the disease could wake up at anytime and then she'd get what we know as active TB. So she got put on a protocol that would prevent her from developing active disease. But it blew my mind how common it is even in rich countries (I know a couple other people that this happened to as well), it's just very easily treated so it doesn't get the attention.

[garrylove]

I live in Ireland and last year a 16 year old teenage girl neighbor of mine died from TB after being left on a trolley for 16 hours unattended and untreated. I don't even blame our medical workers. Our government hasn't funded anything outside of Dublin in decades.

[erinj]

In nursing school I did a pediatric clinical at the county hospital where I was in school in the Central Valley of California. We had a mom who had delivered recently with untreated TB. Mom and baby had brain lesions. Both did not make it and I learned I wasn't strong enough for peds. It broke my heart because she didn't get treated for fear of incarceration and deportation. Completely inhumane. That was 20 years ago and it still makes me sad.

[Jackofafewtrades]

Crazy story: I'm from South Africa and TB is still pretty common among poorer communities. One time, a man my mom employed to mow her lawn got TB during an outbreak, and went to the clinic for help. Instead of treating him for his textbook TB symptoms during a time when TB was common in the area, they gave him paracetamol and sent him home. Inadequate care and dismissive practitioners are why TB is still deadly. It's an 80-day antibiotic course to get rid of it and it's not even expensive or rare in SA, but they just couldn't be arsed to take five minutes to diagnose and treat him.

[GrayeWilliams]

“We never worry for a second…”

Well, I didn’t, John. But… *gestures wildly*