Public Health Disgrace of Sickness and Death

Question: Discuss about thePublic Health for Disgrace of Sickness and Death. Answer: Introduction In the video the spare room by Helen Garner, she tries to tell a story of two bohemian men who were forced to control the disgrace of sickness and death. As she explains, the video has some basis of a reality. Some few years ago, Helen helped a nurse who was her friend as she underwent through her final stages of life due to an illness(Finkel, 2011). Spare room is a fiction video that gives a gripping, artful and fiercely beautiful memoir. Nicola is who is suffering from bowel cancer and is at stage four of the disease has decided to abandon the chemotherapy treatment and venture into an alternative regime that is considered to be self-punishment which entailed the use of the peroxide drips, endless pseudoscientific addresses and intravenous vitamin C. Nicola travelled from Melbourne to a Theodore institute seeking for treatment (Besser, 2009). The institute does not offer reputable treatment to the disease as suggested by its name and instead, Nicola will be spending her time in a spare room that is used by Helen and which is described as roosting spare room. The friendship relationship that existed between Helen and Nicola was founded years back when the two shared enthusiasm and an easy understanding (Finkel, 2011). As Helen prepared the bedroom for Nicola, Helen recalls the jolly evening they had spent with Nicola as the cracked some tunes on the ukulele. Soon Helen realizes that the ukulele tune playing was in the past and it is unlikely that it will happen again as Nicola was much more sicker than Helen was imagining and the course of medication that Nicola had chosen would not help her situation but instead make her more sicker (Gorter, Peper, 2011). Helen is a self- trained nurse who is trained on changing the sheets that are urine soaked and preparing appetizing meals for the sick. She understands that the task of nursing required specialized training that she did not possess (Hahn, Inhorn, 2009). Despite her not being qualified, Nicola refused to undergo through palliative care that Helen had recommended to her. It was also clear that advising Nicola to take the prescribed medicine for cancer such as morphine was going to be hard and a waste of time (Hahn, Inhorn, 2009). Helen decided to collude with Nicola in the belief that the vast use of the pain dose that contained vitamin C could help in scooping the cancerous cells out of Nicolas body. The terrifying fact that Nicola will die was mainly rooted as Nicola refused to take the appropriate treatment for the disease anddecided to take the alternative medicine the is believed that it cheats death by reversing the disease and get fully recovered (Gorter, Peper, 2011). Even though the treatment for bowel cancer is considered to be an arsenal of medieval torture but efficient, Nicola total refuses to accept this mode of treatment and this angers even those who are trying to help her (GorterPeper, 2011). This agitates Helen but even during this painful moment, Helen tries to keep a calm face and have a helping heart. She understands that she is trying to help a friend whom she cares about but also feels like she is slowly killing her and hated the fact that death was in her house. Reference Besser, J. (2009).What to eat during cancer treatment: 100 great-tasting, family-friendly recipes to help you cope. Atlanta, GA, American Cancer Society. Finkel, M. L. (2011). Public health in the 21st century.Santa Barbara, Calif, Praeger. Gorter, R.Peper, E. (2011).Fighting cancer: a nontoxic approach to treatment.Berkeley, North Atlantic Books. Hahn, R. A.Inhorn, M. C. (2009).Anthropology and public health: bridging differences in culture and society. Oxford, Oxford University Press.