Extraordinary Measures

Another nice true story~

After the featured "The Blind Side"

Here comes "Extraordinary Measures"

A movie inspired by the book "The Cure" by Geeta Anand

The story talks about a father's strive to keep his both of his children with Pompe Disease alive

Pompe disease: built up of glycogen in the lysosome due to deficiency of the lysosomal acid-alpha glucosidase enzyme, leading to damage in muscle and nerve cells, ultimately causing diseased children wheelchair bound and short lifespan due to organs enlargements.

The movie utilises various medical and pharmaceutical terms that I've learnt over this half of the year in quality use of medicines (QUM)

One term that kinda illustrated the dark side of pharmaceutical companies is "Acceptable Loss", which means the number of death that is considered acceptable for this drug to be considered as efficient.

Company, essentially is equivalent to "making money", there is no difference between pharmaceutical company and any other companies out there

They look at drugs as something that make them money, which apparently is realistic...but what about life-saving??

Is life-saving simply means "more money" to the shareholders?

Well, sad to say, mostly YES

But I also hope to say that there's still people who CARES about LIFE out there~

People like Mr. Crowley (father of two Pompe children), would do anything to save his children's life

Yes, this might be for the life of his children...so what about Dr. Stonehill (Which actually is Dr. William Canfield), although the enzyme that he developed was not used in the end, but he demonstrated the spirit of health research, CURE PATIENTS!!!

No selfish thoughts AT ALL~ This distinguished himself from the pack...

I love the idea, LOVE IS COLOUR BLIND

We, as human race, we wear the same smile

No matter who you are and where you come from

We do everything to improve OUR life

A recent encounter, two people of different perspective towards one's origin

Isaac, my buddy in everything basketball here in Adelaide

Also a much better referee than me

He met an incident a few days ago......

There was this argument between his partner Greg (another referee) and another irritated player (because his 'flop' wasn't called)

And Isaac stepped in and back Greg up by saying that the perceived foul was not a foul at all

And the angry player made a serious comment about Isaac's ethnicity, "You don't know anything about basketball, you're chinese!"

This comment made Greg thought of Yao Ming instantly and of course, flared him up and he responded "Get out of the court immediately, you xxx xxx racist piece of xxxx", a comment which could potentially cost him his job (referees are not meant to swear, we are meant to keep players calm)

And of course, the angry player got even angrier...and he left the court......

Well, what did you see there??

What I saw, is LOVE IS COLOUR BLIND

Greg stood up against another individual of his own skin colour for Isaac

And risk his job to protect Isaac's dignity

After hearing the story, I was touched by Greg's action, which according to him, was nothing but just a good venting session...

I've always admired the spirit of UNITY as a human race, but only able to witness them thru' TV screens...

This is the first time I met this kinda situation in real life~

Which is AMAZING to tell~

People come to this world for the good of other people

I kinda like this~^^