From: DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE By R. Gordon Richard Gordon was born in 1921. He has been an anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital‚1 a ship’s surgeon and an assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. He left medical practice in 1952 and started writing his "Doctor" series. "Doctor in the House" is one of Gordon’s twelve "Doctor" books and is noted for witty description of a medical student’s years of professional training. To a medical student the final examinations are
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Becoming a doctor…well‚ that is no easy task. Metaphorically‚ it’s a love or hate situation. Before you decide to enter the field‚ you need to make sure you have the qualities of being a doctor‚ which are to be very personable‚ willing to help other people‚ passionate‚ determined‚ hard worker‚ and devoted to your job. One thing that immediately eliminates a lot of people from considering this field is the sight of blood. You have to make sure you can be able to see that‚ in order to even think about
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works. Furthermore‚ his use of humor and wit in this extract from Act II enhances the demonstration of the serious philosophical dilemma. The dilemma consists of Dr. Ridgeon having to decide whether to give the cure to Blenkinsop‚ an honest but feeble doctor‚ or Dubedat‚ “a charming sociopath who happens to be an extraordinary artist”. Whoever doesn’t get the cure will die and Shaw uses wit and humor to make serious issues such as this “trolley dilemma” easier to digest. Shaw calls it a tragedy and very
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“wellness”. Pharmaceutical drug overdoses are now one of the leading causes of death in our nation (Are Doctors to Blame for Prescription Drug Abuse?). The problem with overprescribing is astronomical in the United States. As the epidemic is coming to be out of control‚ many are pointing fingers at doctors. Are physicians to blame for the abuse of prescription drugs? A study has shown that doctors are only a part of the problem. “While we value convenience and easy fixes‚ systemic processes can also
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Ques- Discuss Doctor Faustus as a tragedy relevant to all times Ans- Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe is a Tragedy Relevant To All Times. Pity and fear are the emotions that‚ according to the Greek philosopher Aristotle‚ are aroused by the experience of watching a tragedy. Doctor Faustus is a late sixteenth-century morality play‚ designed to teach its audience about the spiritual dangers of excessive learning and ambition. In fact‚ ‘tragedy’ according to Aristotle’s description (in the Poetics)
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The Conflict Between Medieval and Renaissance Values Scholar R.M. Dawkins famously remarked that Doctor Faustus tells “the story of a Renaissance man who had to pay the medieval price for being one.” While slightly simplistic‚ this quotation does get at the heart of one of the play’s central themes: the clash between the medieval world and the world of the emerging Renaissance. The medieval world placed God at the center of existence and shunted aside man and the natural world. The Renaissance
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Analysis Of The Text «Doctor In The House» By Richard Gordon This text is an extract from the book “Doctor in the house” by Richard Gordon‚ a famous English writer‚ who was born in 1921. He has been an anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital‚ a ship’s surgeon and an assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. He left medical practice in 1952 and started writing his "Doctor" series. "Doctor in the House" is one of Gordon’s twelve "Doctor" books and is noted for witty description of a medical
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directly to its cultural growth as a society‚ as the Romans benefited greatly from contact with such advanced cultures as the Greeks. The Romans did not invent and create most of their greatest discoveries‚ but they took the ideas of many of the cultures they conquered. They took these ideas and used their scholars to make them better and used all the inventions from other cultures to help create one great and huge empire. Rome stimulated and prompts this society by the construction of the Via
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