Soc 490, week 4!

Here we are finishing up another week here in Rome. It is hard fathom I will be leaving for the States in just three weeks. The past two weeks have been crazy we visited two museums and each one was insanely interesting!
The first, museum of the mind, had a lot of history and blew my mind away with unique antiques. The museum was an asylum that was closed down in 1999. It it was a facility used for the mentally insane, criminals, and even orphans.

The second museum was the museum of medical arts! I was not looking forward to this museum because i thought it would be a lot of boring medical things. I was so wrong ! The museum enclosed a lot antique tools used back in the day and had preserved babies with birth defects. It was sad to learn about but filled me with pride that medicine has come so far since then!
Aside from museum visits, we also had a lot of interesting class discussions. Which has made me think whether we should "do as the Romans do." Have they had it right all along? America is always the leader but, maybe this time we should take other people's lead. Statistics prove that Romans are healthier and have lower infant mortality rates than we do. Is it universal healthcare that makes them that way or do we control our on health? I believe the latter. Even if an American learns from a young age what is healthier for us we still have so many options to be "fat". We know what is wrong and what is right, but given the opportunity we will always do what we want. It is a lot like what our book talks about in Canada. They have government funded healthcare but there hospitals are not the best. They choose to put money in other places rather than in hospitals. With universal healthcare Americans have the option to go to the hospital for a cheaper price but how many will take advantage of that?