On the other: stones, short supplies, feuds, the violence of revenge, rampant illness, an acceptance of death and an on-going preoccupation with surviving one more night - or perhaps one more week - together.
Without access to any diagnostic aids, such as simple blood chemistries, microbiologic studies, or imaging, I might never know the exact cause of this now-rampant illness.
While we are getting better at treating preventable illnesses, rampant pollution, food shortages, and conflict over increasingly scarce resources rises unabated.
But there's a deeper and more complex story here: that of rampant untreated mental illness in America.
Illness rampant, medical care insufficient In a plastic portacabin on the other side of the camp, Dr. Baraa al Nasser bandages the broken arm of a tearful young boy.
Stress-induced illnesses are rampant.
Water- and mosquito-borne illnesses are rampant, the result of poor drainage, pooling sewage and water contaminated by leaking septic tanks.
Alongside the threats many women face each time they go to the toilet, a lack of basic sanitation means that easily preventable illnesses run rampant and can kill.
Cancer and many chronic illnesses are rampant in our country, and regular exams are the only insurance to catch them at an early stage, when they are still treatable.
Things like eating disorders and mental illnesses are rampant in today's youth and while you may not want to believe it, chances are you'll get to know someone who suffers from one.
In a recently published book called "Fighting Torture," Chen Yunsheng, of the Law Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, describes the police abuse of detainees, especially to extract confessions, as "rampant" and a "chronic illness".
