This week made me realize that people love ignoring pressing issues. "Ignorance is bliss" is and probably always will be a main characteristic of the general public. Like The New Yorker article said, problems with tangible, immediate, outcomes are more quickly addressed than silent ones, such as climate change or post-surgery infection. Someone screaming and squirming during a difficult surgery is a problem that both surgeon and patient want solved, whereas only the patient really is worried about getting infected after a surgery. After all, once the patient is out of the operating room, the surgeon couldn't care less if they died so long as that appendix was removed. 

I really appreciate how, even in today's day and age, human interaction is still the best way to get people to change the way they do things. Speaking from a experience as a member in a fraternity, I find it really difficult to listen to someone just because they are from nationals and they feel like they know more than you. What is much more appropriate is for people to sit down together and grow a report with one another such that you can both agree on why changes must take place. This is exactly what Sister Seema and the nurse accomplished together during Sister Seema's mission to update the nurses habits when she was helping a mother during child birth.