SOSA 2503 Lecture 10: SOSA 2503 - Lecture 10
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Sosa 2503 lecture 10 february 7, 2019. Bitter medicine part one : the birth of medicare https://www. nfb. ca/film/bitter_medicine_part_one_the_birth_of_medicare: this documentary is related to medicare policies in the 1960s-1980s, sas allowed immigration. Survival in an inhospitable environment in the prairies. The necessities of self-reliance was immense: women assumed their traditional role as healers as they care for their youngs. They were concerned with tb and organized the anti-tb league. They built 3 caring facilities for people with tb: as early as 1913s, farmers contributed to a doctor to live among them for health care. After the war, doctors began to concentrate in the cities but not in the small town. There was an impersonality relationship between the doctor and the patients. The doctors would only treat the emergency: the doctors felt their lifestyle and their mode of lifestyle was at stake. There were ads in the back where children was portrayed to be dying or screaming.