Case scenario: Gaitan’s death

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On April 9, 1948, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, then a popular political leader likely to become the
next president of Colombia, was shot and killed by a drifter whose motivations remain
obscure. Gaitán's death touched off a spontaneous riot, known as the Bogotazo, and left
hundreds dead, razed the center of Bogotá and had far reaching consequences.

Braun's narrative begins in the year 1930 in Bogotá, Colombia, when a generation of
Liberals and Conservatives came to power convinced they could keep the peace by being
distant, dispassionate, and rational. One of these politicians, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, was
different. Seeking to bring about a society of merit, mass participation, and individualism,
he exposed the private interests of the reigning politicians and engendered a passionate
relationship with his followers. His assassination called forth urban crowds that sought to
destroy every visible evidence of public authority of a society they felt no longer had the
moral right to exist.

https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/0800.htm

Case scenario: Turkey and Syria’s earthquake

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Videos and photographs of the two earthquakes that have devastated southern Turkey
and northern Syria, killing at least 7,800 people, show rescuers digging with their hands,
apartment blocks concertinaing to the ground in seconds, and the shaking apart of
a castle that had stood for almost two millennia.

But few images depict the agony quite as plainly as a photograph from the Turkish region
of Kahramanmaraş, in which a father holds the hand of his dead teenage daughter as
rescuers and civilians pick through the flattened building where she died on Monday.

Sitting hunched in the rubble, Mesut Hancer keeps hold of 15-year-old Irmak as she lies
on her bed beneath the slabs of concrete, smashed windows and broken bricks that were
once apartments. Close to the father and daughter, a man with a sledgehammer tries to
smash his way through the ruins.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/07/turkey-earthquake-man-photo-dead-
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Case scenario: Misscarriage
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"When I had a stillbirth at 32 weeks, my baby already had a name - Julio Cesar. I rushed
to the clinic with very high blood pressure. After a checkup, the doctor told me to take
some rest and prescribed a medication to lower my blood pressure, but no other advice. At
the pharmacy they gave me much more advice about avoiding certain types of food,
drastically reducing salt intake, resting more and how to lay down – none of which the
doctors had told me.

After a week I still had the same symptoms, so I returned to the clinic. The doctor rushed
me to take an ultrasound during which he told me that something was wrong. I asked what
it was, he then told me that the baby had no vital signs. I already knew that my baby was
dead. I know that my stillbirth could have been avoided. If I had been given more
information from the very beginning, and received more medical attention at critical
moments of my pregnancy, my baby could have been saved.

Immediately after the ultrasound I was transferred to the delivery room where they induced
labor and I had to go through a natural delivery knowing that my baby was already dead. It
was very painful and mentally devastating.

https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/why-we-need-to-talk-about-losing-a-baby/
emilia's-story

Case scenario: Rare disease

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My rare disease is called sporadic visceral neuropathy. There are only four known
recorded cases worldwide and very little research on the disease. My diagnosis is
relatively new — late 2019 — but I’ve probably had the disease for quite some time. The
rare disease affects the enteric nervous system of the bowel, and I have nerve damage
throughout the entirety of my intestines.

My diagnostic journey was nothing short of a nightmare, not to be dramatic, but seriously,
it was a roller-coaster that I couldn’t get off! I was given extensive workup CTs, abdominal
radiographs, colonoscopies, and endoscopies, which were all unremarkable. I’ve been told
repeatedly there is nothing medically wrong with me, and I started to get flagged and
accused of drug-seeking behavior. Medical professionals thought I was faking my pain to
get pain relief, and I was accused of liking the attention I received in the emergency room.
I understood, but I knew something was wrong with me.

On one occasion, I begged the doctor for a second opinion. I stood my ground, and they
found that a portion of my large bowel had collapsed and had a potential band adhesion.
They booked surgery straight away and removed the adhesions. We thought I was fixed
after this, but to no surprise, I wasn’t. I kept coming into hospital with the same symptoms
that were progressively worsening. https://rarediseases.org/kieras-rare-disease-journey/