Text Analysis From: Doctor In The House by R. Gordon Richard Gordon is an English surgeon and anaesthetist. He has written numerous novels‚ screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history‚ mostly dealing with the practice of medicine. He is most famous for a long series of comic novels on a medical theme starting with Doctor in the House‚ which is full of comic description of medical student`s years of professional training. Text under consideration belongs to the
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"I want to be a doctor in air force when I grow up." This used to be the bottom line of every conversation I used to have about my career as a child and a teenager. I achieved half of my dream only because my eyesight betrayed me and they said you cannot be a flying officer. It was heartbreaking for me but I made peace with it. I have never seen a path in my life that has not been full of incredibly hard and hostile situations whether it is my personal life‚ academic or social one. Since my childhood
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In this paper‚ I will be discussing Joseph Collins article‚ “Should Doctors Tell the Truth”‚ and more specifically his second premise. Collins second premise states‚ the truth can harm the patient. I will be countering this premise because patients should be told the truth whether it is good or bad. Withholding information from a patient to “protect” them form the truth is wrong because all information‚ whether good or bad‚ has meaning to the patient. The truth to a patient has intrinsic value
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A Critical Analysis of "The Doctor Won’t See You Now" Kevin Asp 02/26/97 Essay # 1 Initially‚ James Gorman appears to be stating that physicians should not be ethically obligated to treat each and every "slob" that seeks treatment. The title of the essay‚ and the sarcastic tone‚ give evidence that the thesis is quite the contrary. Gorman does identify an alarming trend of physicians looking through a cynical eye with an example of a survey by the American Medical Association
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if a patient goes to the doctor and ask to do a life threating surgery that could end your life in a few day or it could make you better. So the people are going to think to do the surgery so that the illness goes away and you live your life‚ and there is always hope to get better. Euthanizer point of view is that if you have a life threating illness and you have a choice to do the surgery or not to because most likely you are going to die from the surgery. And the doctor suggest not to do the surgery
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Doctor Money and the Boy with no Penis A. The most tragic thing about this story is that David and his brother couldn’t make through in the end. After all the fighting they had both been through‚ the bad parts of their life took over the good parts and ate away at them until I suppose neither of them found life worth living. What struck me the most was probably that at the end of the documentary‚ David even asks if it will take them shooting themselves in the head for people to listen
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Bezuglaya Anastasiya 1ATM. Analysis of Doctor in the House written by R. Gordon. Before analyzing this story‚ it is important to mention that Richard Gordon used to be a practicing doctor before he started his career as a writer. His stories are based on personal experience‚ what makes them more striking. The story is highly emotional and ironical first person narration which tells about medical students’ experience of passing their final examinations. The text is clearly divided into three parts
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When I Grow Up (Names of the authors have been changed to protect identities) Jesse B. Age 9 Winner (tie) of 3rd Place Prize for ages 7-10. Every person is born with a special talent and I think when you grow up people have a chance to use their special talent. Lots of people are born with different talents. I think that it is a good idea to try different stuff. If you find something you really like and you’re really good at it you should go for it. But talents aren’t the only things of
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In “I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz” was published in 1948 by Dr. Gisella Perl as an autobiography of her experiences as a Hungarian Jewish Gynecologist in Nazi concentration camps. Perl begins the novel before Nazi perversity eradicates her village and she recounts her experiences in the death camps. Perl divides the novel into short stories of all the people she encounters in her ultimate quest for survival. Perl devotes her memoir in recognition to the inhumane events that took place. Perl applies
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Doctor-Nurse Communication Physicians and nurses have had to interact since nursing became a profession. The act of communication between nurses and physicians is a central activity in health care‚ and a failure to communicate has been linked with poor quality and patient errors. During the history of nursing‚ these interactions have been as different as each individual physician and nurse is different. The two professions have had to form relationships to accomplish their common goal: quality
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