The Silent World Of The Doctor And Patient By Jean Katz Summary

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My view on what Katz’s had to say is a little bit confusing, however, I seem to slightly understand what he’s saying. I would say that the book The Silent World of the Doctor and Patient that it’s dated and not at the same time. In today's, some people have great relationships with their doctors and some don’t. I think it depends on the individual and how much of a people person they are which goes for both patients and doctor. For example, I used to go to therapy when I was younger. It would take me at least two weeks to get used to the therapist before I start to open up to them. After letting them in we would have lovely conversations and I would tend to feel much better and became less depressed and stressed out. However, I personally think …show more content…

But communication I think goes both ways, for many reasons. I’ve seen people come to the doctor office and not tell the doctor everything that is going on with them until things get worse. I also have seen doctor diagnose patients and don’t treatment until something pops up. For example, I have an aunt who’s in the hospital now. She caught a mild stroke. When her daughter took her the nurse was told to run an EKG on her. The leads were not sticking and her daughter asked her if she needs help. The nurse told her no I got this and went through with the EKG, which came back normal. As a student who took EKG, I was taught that you are supposed to wipe the patient's skin off before placing the leads so they can stick. How are you supposed to get a proper reading if your leads are falling off? Then, the doctor told my cousin that her mother was fine that she can go home. My cousin looked at the doctor and told them, “don’t you see my mother mouth is twisted, her speech is slurred, and her hand swollen.” After she said that then the doctor looked and said, “oh yeah we’ll run and CT scan on her.” When the result came back they saw that she had a mild

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