"But he needs medicine now, and we can't afford it," he said.
Why don't you use the same technology to save somebody's life when a mother needs medicine or a child needs medicine instead of it being stuck on a lorry on a muddy road.
It's a psychiatrist's job to try to distinguish between what is pathological and what is not, as well as what needs medicine and what doesn't, but we get a crack at only a small percentage of those who seek help.
Consider the mother in Sierra Leone who needs medicine for her sick daughter: paying a small fee to the staff at her local health clinic might speed up the procurement of drugs, whereas going through the formal and often inefficient channels could put the girl's life at risk.
Consequently, this installation can be an attractive solution to meet positive cooling needs (medicine and food storage) in off-grid electricity regions.
But if all this is disconnected from patients and their needs, medicine will run the risk of ignoring the knowledge of its limits, which will objectively continue to exist in the light of the extreme complexity of the human being.
