Do we attend a Psych-Ward on Daily Basis?!

The Psych ward in the One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is very clearly run by through a hierarchical system lead by Big Nurse. She quite obviously has ultimate power in the ward, seeing that she has the biggest wager in decisions, if not making them herself. Unlike her, the rest of the people in the psych ward including the faculty have little say in things. No one except her have choices to make. Because of this Monarchy that Big Nurse formed over the years she can easily control what goes on within her ward without having any misbehavior from the patients. She does this by using forms of punishments such as a lobotomy that the patients would do anything to avoid. All in all, it is very clearly portrayed who is in power, and who has none whatsoever.

            It is actually quit similar within our school and probably every other school. Our form of Big Nurse would be Mr. Welch, holding all the power and being able to make decisions for any department for the school. Mr. Welch’s job is to use his power to keep everything in school calm and controlled. He does this by being able to portray his message to the people under him, such as the vice-principles of each grade, or department heads who will then pass the message/order onto the students. If students misbehave there are consequences. Obviously nothing as painful and un-ethical as a lobotomy, but something more like a suspension or a Saturday-school. Most Institutions work like this, it is virtually the only way to keep the order within the elders, or the more controlled people. It is exactly like the psych ward, but with no life-changing consequences.

            Many people believe that schools are not as similar to a psych ward, but if you think about it they are exactly the same. We can’t choose which classes we want which periods. We can’t choose when to go to lunch, and we cant leave the school during school hours. The patients cant choose which cell and which room-mate they want to have, they cant choose when they want to eat, and they cant choose if they want to be a Chronic or an Acute. We have one person in power, Mr. Welch and they have Big Nurse. People enforce the choices of the ultimate power, our teachers and the black boys. There is nothing different between a psych ward and a school, just the people who control it. 

Does medicine cure, or simply cause more health problems?

             Nowadays medicine is given by doctors and used by patients with almost no second thoughts. People take for granted that with the new technology and scientific standpoints the medicine that they get will solve the problem ninety percent of the time. Now don’t get me wrong, I am in no way saying they don’t do their jobs. Just that medicine producers produce medicine to only remove the symptoms of whatever the patient is struggling with. They feel as though side effects are not their fault because the manufacturers believe they have done their job.

            As the creators of the products discard the side effects they go on to create medicines that treat the person for their specific need, but then causes them one hundred different side effects. This is clearly portrayed through the hundreds of advertisements shown throughout the day on the television. When a medicine is advertised they spend maybe one eighth of the time describing what the medicine treats, one eighth of how to obtain the medicine and then six eights to describe the multiple and in some cases, fatal side effects. I sometimes laugh to myself wondering what these companies must be thinking making a medicine to allow someone to sleep, but then as a side effect may cause them to die or gain some sort of terrible, irreversible condition.

            In general I believe that modern medicine in most cases do not treat the patient in their best interest. If modern medicine were made in the consumers best interest there would be little to one side effect, and definitely nothing fatal. The definition of medicine is a compound or preparation used for the treatment or prevention of disease, esp. a drug or drugs taken by mouth, not a compound or preparation used for the treatment that also causes more health problems after being taken.