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The Angel And The Patient As The Masked Marvel

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For the previous essays we mostly read in a negative perspective the patients going to the doctor or health clinics and having a bad outcome. This essay changed and created a new effect because explained the doctor’s view who had to deliver bad news to the patients without knowing what he felt, or what he was thinking and trying to do his job.
The personal story affects the credibility of the narrator in a way of seeing the doctor in a more human way, and not as a delivery of medicine and science.The patient told a story to the doctor when he was a kid and went to a fight with his uncle. At the end of the article the doctor identified himself as “The Angel” and the patient as the “Masked Marvel.” The article ended with the doctor saying “It’s


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