Ma’am Joan taught a lesson on airway devices, plastic appliances we can insert in a patients throat to keep him breathing. She showed us the newest model which was considered safer because it didn’t have to go all the way down the throat. “This one is very expensive, 10,000 Pesos. In America they consider it disposable.”

The students all balked. “Yes,” she agreed. “In the Philippines nothing that costs ten thousand pesos is ... (more)