Nick De Los Santos
Professor Bylund
EEE 2083-70460
October 26, 2022
Dallas Buyers Club
The story is quite an interesting one. Growing up in the heart of Texas, a rugged cowboy named Ron Woodroof would find himself in a situation he would never have thought of. It is fair to say that Ron Woodroof is a homophobic and racist man; that is what his character is dictated to be in this film. You may ask, what does this have to do with the business? A person who has evil morals is faced with everything he hates. Ron Woodroof is faced with having the disease of AIDS.
Ron Woodroof is a bull-riding cowboy that enjoys drinking, drug use, and having sex. When you put those three things together, you can not help but sit back and think about what good comes from those things. Well, most do it for the high or the few minutes of "passion" when these things are just temporary enjoyment for one's body. More harm than good comes from these things, and Ron Woodroof learned that by choosing to live such a life. The racist and homophobic that he is, Ron Woodroof lives his life to no extent. It would not be soon before Ron Woodroof would go to the doctor's office for a checkup after a bull riding incident and find out it was discovered he had AIDS. Ron was devastated and refused to believe what he had heard, saying it was a "faggot disease."
They had given him weeks to live, with absolutely nothing that could be done to help Ron. However, Ron Woodroof refused this statement and decided to continue his quest to cure himself of this terrible disease. However, there was little to no research on cures for the disease. It was still so new to the whole world that doctors had nothing for it, no medicine or treatments. There seemed to be no hope, but like in the business world, when shit hits the fan, we can not just sit there sobbing. Every business person knows they must work to get that edge on their next move or be buried because they did not even try. Bend the rules without breaking them; sometimes, we are forced to do anything to survive or even have a chance at it.
So that is precisely what Ron Woodroof did; he found a doctor (Dr. Vass) who lost his medical license in the United States for reasons of clinical trials but still is a doctor in the country of Mexico now. Dr. Vass gave Ron a ton of different drugs and vitamins that he thought would work to fight off the disease in a positive way. Given these drugs, Ron then gets the idea of selling them to other people who contain the virus. A little later, Ron would find himself partnering with a transgender person selling these drugs to a gay community that happens to have AIDS as well. From there, Ron Woodroof and his colleague would run their "business" from the underground, as these drugs were not FDA-approved. This leads me to stop and think how there should never be a reason for you to stop and quit on yourself. There is always a way around something, as long as you believe in what you are doing and doing it right.
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