Common Sense Quotes

Common Sense: Page 6; those things that everyone knows are true.

Mary knew that once she was told that he was a healthy carrier of typhoid that she should get treated or at best placed in quarantine. But she refused to except the fact that every placed that she worked that people were coming down with typhoid. Even though she washed her hands before handling food, people were still contracting the infection and dying. When the authorities’ traced the infection back to her she refused to believe what she was told. She fought them and went into hiding just to keep form believing.

Patterns of behavior: page 11; recurring behavior or events.

Even after Mary was quarantined on an island and once she had time to think she realized for herself

She fought to become the sought after cook within the homes of the rich. She had the standards to become the best. She held on to these values so tightly that they blinded her from the truth, the truth in which she was making people sick and killing them. Her values were so important to her and her beliefs so strong that she refused to her to hear the truth even when the truth was right in her face. Her values of that she was better than her peers made her impossible to deal with when she was told the truth about her own illness.

Depersonalization: Page 557; dealing with people as though they were objects; in the case of medical care, as though patients were merely cases and diseases, not people.

These problem has been going on for years. This did not just start with Mary. Although Mary was treated as a lab rat once it was discovered she was a healthy carrier of typhoid. She was considered as a case and a disease to society. The doctors, health department, and the CDC wanted to find out how was it that she could pass on the infection and have no symptoms herself. With this treatment of Mary, she felt as if she was no longer