I have chosen to compare a personal story to the story I Am Not a Patella in the book Privileged Presence. I found that these two stories illustrate two completely different approaches to an injury. In the situation in the story I Am Not a Patella, the writer found that she was ignored as a person and she was defined as her injury. In contrast, the doctor attending to my injury took the time to see me as a whole person. I feel personally that the way my injury was handled was much more effective. As a result, a large portion of this paper will discuss the importance of developing a therapeutic relationship with patients. There will also be a focus on treating a patient as a whole person with a life story and a family instead of a collection …show more content…
Instead, the doctor exclaims, “So this is the patella”, merely reducing to patient nothing but her injury. In contrast, the doctor that took care of my injury not only called me by name, but he also asked if he was pronouncing it correctly. I have an unusual name that is not often pronounced correctly. By taking the time to say it right, I felt as though I actually mattered to the doctor. Another difference between this story and mine is her doctor did not take the time to explain what was happening to her knee. Instead, he just spoke medical jargon to his colleagues. My doctor, on the other hand, explained that what he was about to do to my finger would be painful. Then he asked if I was ready for him to start. All while he was fixing my finger he was speaking very kindly to me. I can’t recall what he said, but I know it made me feel very comfortable. There are, however, some similarities to this story. The nurses and therapist that took care of the patient in this story acted in a similar manner to the doctor is this story. The patient talks highly of these people leading the reader to conclude that they had a big influence on the outcome of her injury. She concluded that the nurse who washed her hair made her feel much more …show more content…
In my own personal story, I truly appreciated the doctor telling me that it would be painful. Also, in I Am Not a Patella, I felt as though the doctor was not honest by not telling the patient anything about her condition. According to Arnold and Boggs, “honesty is a basic building block in establishing trust. Studies show that clients…prefer complete disclosure” (pg. 205). The client is in an extremely vulnerable position. It is extremely important that the nurse or other health care provider be sensitive to this and ensure that trust is maintained. (College of Nurses of Ontario, 2013). Those who are terminally ill, appreciate those professional who are willing to talk to them honestly about dying and end of life preparations (Terminally Ill Deserve Honesty,
In her personal essay, Dr. Grant writes that she learned that most cases involving her patients should not be only handled from a doctor’s point of view but also from personal experience that can help her relate to each patient regardless of their background; Dr. Grant was taught this lesson when she came face to face with a unique patient. Throughout her essay, Dr. Grant writes about how she came to contact with a patient she had nicknamed Mr. G. According to Dr. Grant, “Mr. G is the personification of the irate, belligerent patient that you always dread dealing with because he is usually implacable” (181). It is evident that Dr. Grant lets her position as a doctor greatly impact her judgement placed on her patients, this is supported as she nicknamed the current patient Mr.G . To deal with Mr. G, Dr. Grant resorts to using all the skills she
When it comes to a bad diagnosis it is often difficult for doctors to tell their patients this devastating news. The doctor will likely hold back from telling the patient the whole truth about their health because they believe the patient will become depressed. However, Schwartz argues that telling the patient the whole truth about their illness will cause depression and anxiety, but rather telling the patient the whole truth will empower and motivate the patient to make the most of their days. Many doctors will often also prescribe or offer treatment that will likely not help their health, but the doctors do so to make patients feel as though their may be a solution to the problem as they are unaware to the limited number of days they may have left. In comparison, people who are aware there is no cure to their diagnosis and many choose to live their last days not in the hospital or pain free from medications without a treatment holding them back. They can choose to live their last days with their family and will have more time and awareness to handle a will. Schwartz argues the importance of telling patients the truth about their diagnosis and communicating the person’s likely amount of time left as it will affect how the patient chooses to live their limited
Almost doctors and physicians in the world have worked at a hospital, so they must know many patients’ circumstances. They have to do many medical treatments when the patients come to the emergency room. It looks like horror films with many torture scenes, and the patients have to pay for their pains. The doctors have to give the decisions for every circumstance, so they are very stressful. They just want to die instead of suffering those medical treatments. In that time, the patients’ family just believes in the doctors and tells them to do whatever they can, but the doctors just do something that 's possible. Almost patients have died after that expensive medical treatments, but the doctors still do those medical procedures. That doctors did not have enough confidence to tell the truth to the patients’ families. Other doctors have more confidence, so they explain the health condition to the patients’ families. One time, the author could not save his patient, and the patient had found another doctor to help her. That doctor decided to cut her legs, but the patient still died in fourteen days
Carole Lauren is a 44 year old mother of two, a wife, and a school teacher by profession. Her story began 21 months ago when she had a cerebrovascular accident that left her hemiplegic. Almost two years passed since the event. Carole regained most of the lost function in her left leg, ankle, and foot. However, she still has limited function in her left arm and hand. She also has difficulty organizing her thoughts and read her message from a paper. Her story is about a journey through the health care system.
In conclusion, doctors have a moral obligation to tell patients the truth about their illnesses, unless the patient clearly states that he or she does not want to know. Medicine is a field that works to treat the patient. This means that physicians are there for guidance, using expertise and years of education to guide them to a cure. This does not mean that a physician should make decisions about the patients without proper consent. Believing that patients will misunderstand the diagnosis, or assuming that they won’t want to know are not valid reasons for keeping information from the person. Communication is important in a medical setting, and is especially important when talking about the health of an individual. With relevant, appropriate and humanistic communication, telling a patient their diagnosis can and should be done in a caring way.
.... Each day your will leave a lasting impression on the people you interact with. By providing care and communicating with your patients, you will foster not only trust but also you will heal not only your patients’ bodies but their minds too. The sense of gratification felt from such service is unparalleled.
Early civilizations have strikingly similar political and social structures. Also, one cannot help notice the similarity in their geographical locations as well as their religious beliefs. However, there are key differences between various early civilizations in terms of religion and their socio-political setups. Below is a description of some of the similarities and differences between the early Indus (Indian) civilization and the early Egyptian civilization based on their key geographical features and religious beliefs.
Every ancient society and civilization has creation myths that were passed down and keep alive throughout the passing of time by word of mouth. These myths are the world’s oldest stories and are vital to these cultures because they explain their beginnings and give purpose to their existence. By analyzing and interpreting different creation myths it becomes easier to understand different cultures and their connections and relationships with heir beliefs and god(s).
Hesiod’s Theogony and the Babylonian Enuma Elish are both myths that begin as creation myths, explaining how the universe and, later on, humans came to be. These types of myths exist in every culture and, while the account of creation in Hesiod’s Theogony and the Enuma Elish share many similarities, the two myths differ in many ways as well. Both myths begin creation from where the universe is a formless state, from which the primordial gods emerge. The idea of the earth and sky beginning as one and then being separated is also expressed in both myths.
“The Doctor” presented interesting and emotional concepts accurately representing the philosophies and behaviors of many medical professionals. Perhaps its viewing would be beneficial by members of our medical community, and provide a framework to the personalization of patient care.
As the story begins, the unnamed doctor is introduced as one who appears to be strictly professional. “Aas often, in such cases, they weren’t telling me more than they had to, it was up to me to tell them; that’s why they were spending three dollars on me.” (par. 3) The doctor leaves the first impression that he is one that keeps his attention about the job and nothing out of the ordinary besides stating his impressions on the mother, father and the patient, Mathilda. Though he does manage to note that Mathilda has a fever. The doctor takes what he considers a “trial shot” and “point of departure” by inquiring what he suspects is a sore throat (par. 6). This point in the story, nothing remains out of the ordinary or questionable about the doctor’s methods, until the story further develops.
professors) define social support as “an exchange of resources between at least two or more individuals perceived by the provider or the recipient to be intended to enhance the well-being of the recipient ”. In other hands close relatives such as family members, team members, and coaches can have a significant impact on the athlete who is injured. In most cases the athletic trainer is the primary source of social support simply because they are there in the process of injury recover. They help them cope successfully and help them reduce such anxiety’s, yet if the injured athlete has no social support it can lead or increase the chances of getting injured once again. Support-based intervention is grouped into three main components, emotional support, tangible support, and last but not least informational support. The first main component is emotional support that can be broken into three more subcomponents, listening, being all ears without giving advice or Judgment. Secondly displaying emotion, comforting him or her and showing that you care. Third, emotionally challenging them that way it produces self-reflection upon them self. The second main component is tangible support, assisting or providing them with materialistic things. Lastly, we have informational support. Which requires the athletic trainer to be an expertise on the athlete’s injury, provide successful exercises, and rehabilitation goals. Which leads us to our second psychological intervention, goal
When modern men ponder the origin of human beings, we often struggle between the theories of modern science and the divine intervention by an unseen God that was predestined to create the first man and woman according to religion. One of the most intriguing questions that faith struggles to discover is that of our beginning. Why did human beings begin on earth? How and when were we made? Was there a creator? What was the purpose that men came into the world? For some, these questions have always been answered by the belief in religious deities. Each religion, no matter how ancient or modern, has sought to answer these most fundamental questions that influence, if not dominate, the attributes of that human civilization. Because of this, diverse
‘In the beginning there was only water, a chaos of churning, bubbling water, this is what the Egyptians called Nu or Nun. It was out of Nu that everything began. As with the Nile, each year the inundation no doubt caused chaos to all creatures living on the land, so this represents Nu. Eventually the floods would recede and out of the chaos of water would emerge a hill of dry land, one at first, then more. On this first dry hilltop, on the first day came the first sunrise.’ This is how the ancient Egyptians explain the beginning of their universe and placement in the cosmos.
However, the client hated hospitals because that was where there wife had passed away. He took carefully to the nurses who were caring for him. He knew judgment when he saw it. The nurses that care for him during his stay were compassionate and concerned about how he would care for himself when it left. This surprised the patient. The nurse caring for the patient recognized other health problems the patient had, and took the extra time to address them before he left. The patient knew the nurse stayed past her shift. This situation goes to show that in order for nurses to have caring they need to leave all judgement behind. They are not there to judge the patients they are there to treat them. Patient notice things and nurses may not realize. They notice when they take the extra time to care for them or just chat with them. In this situation the patient realized that the nurse could have just treated the injury and let the patient leave. However, the staff did not do that. The nurse looked beyond the patient and saw a person who needed help. This is what caring and compassion is in nursing, looking beyond the patient and seeing a person (Chambers and Ryder 2016).