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@icarian-falling
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Hello there! You can call me Icarian, if you wish.
I'm an early 20s reader, writer, and consumer of (sometimes questionable) media. This is mostly a space for my writing and fandom related trash.
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i do genuinely believe that the best thing that can happen to a person Creatively is to just get obsessed with some random-ass guy
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never stop being obnoxious about fictional character online. you will find like-minded people and it will literally save you
I constantly feel the need to remind other hunger games fans that District 12 is Appalachia. The folk music and blue grass that the covey sing are meant to sound like old folk music about coal miners. The fact that there mostly coal miners there is a big thing too it means that they live high in the mountains. They are poor and impoverished much like Appalachia. I feel like anyone that says it's not is just flat wrong because it's stated in Chapter 3 page 40 of THG.
Hello all, it’s that time again for me to call Coriolanus Snow a little bitch ass loser that gets hives every time he thinks of his ex
Doctors in District 12
The first thing we hear about doctors is this from Katniss: 'Since almost no one can afford doctors, apothecaries are our healers.' (THG p.9). This implies, first, that there are doctors plural in the district, and, second, that some people can afford to go to them and are allowed to do so.
Katniss also mentions 'the district doctor who's repsonsible for treating the miners' (THG p.216). This could mean there's a single district doctor who's responsibilites include treating the miners, but based on the previous thing she said it more likely means that one of the small number of doctors in the district is specifically employed to look over the miners. Presumably this person is employed on some kind of government tenure? The miners surely couldnt afford to pay the full price for treatment, though there could be a smaller fee, or a wider tax on their wages.
It seems like these doctors have to be Capitol because being a doctor 'would require university training' (TBOSAS p.355). Prim could never have become a doctor in District 12 (Mj p.179). Possibly there are universities in districts like D1 or D3 that could also train people for this, but we only hear about 'the University', which seems to be the only one in the Capitol. It's fee paying (TBOSAS p.13), and it's logical that some medical graduates would have to take bad positions in the districts to pay off student or other debts, like many Peacekeepers have to sign up to cover debts (TBOSAS p.36).
The Peacekeepers' base has a built-in clinic and there's more than one doctor employed there, and some medics and nurses (TBOSAS p.402, 411, 464 etc). Seems like they also function as coroners since Mayfair and Billy Taupe's bodies are examined there (TBOSAS p.464), and Katniss says it's usual for Peacekeepers to take bodies away then announce the cause of death so that's not just for murders (THG p.34). Because their clinic is on the base, a secure military site, I think it's not likely they'd be taking on district patients for extra cash.
Manufactured medicines and their various avaliabilities come up a lot. Morphling is made in and imported from the Capitol, Asterid doesn't have any in her supplies despite being rich now, Merrilee Undersee, the mayor's wife, is able to get it (CF p.140-1). Asterid does have some other painkillers 'the kind usually accessible only to doctors' 'hard to come by, expensive' (CF p.138). There's the antidepressants Asterid has (THG p.43). There is also a store that sells medicine: 'dried herbs and tinctures and store-bought bottles' (CF p.136), Asterid buys fever pills to use sometimes (THG p.309), Katniss says sleep syrup is cheap and very commmon (THG p.335). It's likely those three come from the Town apothecaries, but the stronger medicines might have to come through doctors. How medicine gets from the manufacturing site (Capitol or other districts) to the apothecary stores is not clear. Can they order it themselves? Do they just get first dibs buying it off eclectic import trains? Do they have to go through the district doctors? Do doctors sell medicine like a pharmacy? Merrilee might need a doctors prescription to get morphling. Exactly how goods including medicines are imported and distributed is not stated.
District doctors are not able to do as much as Capitol doctors, probably due to a lack of technology. Merrilee's chronic headaches would be treatable in the Capitol but no healthcare avaliable to her in the district can fix them (CF p.107).
Since there are Town apothecaries, merchants must be using them for healthcare most of the time, and doctors would only be for extreme circumstances. (Not that all merchants are in the same economic position to afford them.) If some Town folk are going to doctors for healthcare, I'd expect the thing they'd really pay for is obstetrics. Childbirth is so dangerous without medical care and also an unavoidable part of life. People usually want doctors for that more than anything else. No proof for this, all we get about childbirth in 12 is the implication that Seam women do it at home with no mention even of midwives (THG p.422, SOTR ebook p.120), so this is just my speculation.
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Why don't they make stained glass fish tanks? Give those fish Catholic guilt
fascinated by the implication that it's the stained glass that gives catholics the guilt
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“The other victors must’ve been so scared when Haymitch was somewhat sober during the 74th games” ok but have we considered how PROUD Mags, Wiress, and Beetee all must’ve been?
