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From the Ted Talk by Abhishek Gopalka: How motivation can fix public systems

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prucite this. Sudha, a daily-wage earner, realizes that her one-year-old daughter is suffering from uncontrollable dysentery. So she decides to take the day off. That's a loss of about 350 rupees or five dollars. And she picks up her dtageuhr in her arms and walks for five kilometers to the government PHC. But the doctor isn't there. So she takes the next day off, again, and comes back to the PHC. This time, the dcotor is there, but the pharmacist tells her that the free drugs that she's entitled to have run out, because they forgot to rerdeor them on time. So now, she rushes to the patirve medical center, and as she's ruisnhg there, looking at her daughter's cidnootin worsening with every pssanig hour, she can't help but wonder if she should have gone to the private medical cnteer in the first place and payed the 350 rupees for the consultation and drugs. No one is held accountable for this incredible failure of the system. Costing time, money and heartache to Sudha. And this is something that just had to be fixed.

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_______ this. Sudha, a daily-wage earner, realizes that her one-year-old daughter is suffering from uncontrollable dysentery. So she decides to take the day off. That's a loss of about 350 rupees or five dollars. And she picks up her ________ in her arms and walks for five kilometers to the government PHC. But the doctor isn't there. So she takes the next day off, again, and comes back to the PHC. This time, the ______ is there, but the pharmacist tells her that the free drugs that she's entitled to have run out, because they forgot to _______ them on time. So now, she rushes to the _______ medical center, and as she's _______ there, looking at her daughter's _________ worsening with every _______ hour, she can't help but wonder if she should have gone to the private medical ______ in the first place and payed the 350 rupees for the consultation and drugs. No one is held accountable for this incredible failure of the system. Costing time, money and heartache to Sudha. And this is something that just had to be fixed.

Solution


  1. private
  2. picture
  3. condition
  4. doctor
  5. reorder
  6. passing
  7. center
  8. daughter
  9. rushing

Original Text


Picture this. Sudha, a daily-wage earner, realizes that her one-year-old daughter is suffering from uncontrollable dysentery. So she decides to take the day off. That's a loss of about 350 rupees or five dollars. And she picks up her daughter in her arms and walks for five kilometers to the government PHC. But the doctor isn't there. So she takes the next day off, again, and comes back to the PHC. This time, the doctor is there, but the pharmacist tells her that the free drugs that she's entitled to have run out, because they forgot to reorder them on time. So now, she rushes to the private medical center, and as she's rushing there, looking at her daughter's condition worsening with every passing hour, she can't help but wonder if she should have gone to the private medical center in the first place and payed the 350 rupees for the consultation and drugs. No one is held accountable for this incredible failure of the system. Costing time, money and heartache to Sudha. And this is something that just had to be fixed.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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health system 5
trigger motivation 2
free drugs 2
private medical 2
review meetings 2
coffee shop 2
shop strategy 2
citizen promises 2
administrative officers 2
broken systems 2
large states 2

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collocation frequency
public health system 4
coffee shop strategy 2

Important Words


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  3. center
  4. condition
  5. consultation
  6. costing
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  17. fixed
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  20. government
  21. heartache
  22. held
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  24. incredible
  25. kilometers
  26. loss
  27. medical
  28. money
  29. passing
  30. payed
  31. pharmacist
  32. phc
  33. picks
  34. picture
  35. place
  36. private
  37. realizes
  38. reorder
  39. run
  40. rupees
  41. rushes
  42. rushing
  43. sudha
  44. suffering
  45. system
  46. takes
  47. tells
  48. time
  49. uncontrollable
  50. walks
  51. worsening