Rajamannar Spring 2016/Advanced Writing for Health Sciences/The Culture of Medicine and the Physician-Patient Relationship
Assignment 2
The Culture of Medicine and the Physician-Patient Relationship
Rhetorical goal:
In this unit you will be practicing skills that are essential to both professional and academic writing: analyzing texts selecting key elements of those texts to focus on and making an argument about why those elements are important.
Readings:
From The Social Medicine Reader Vol I: Patients Doctors and Illness ed. Nancy M.P. King et al. Second Edition. Duke University Press 2005.?????
From Part I The Experience of Illness:
(1) Arthur Frank: The Cost of Appearances
From Part II The Culture of Medicine and the Physician-Patient Relationship:
(entire section)
(1) Basic Clinical Skills: The First Encounters / Melvin Konner 89
(2) The Learning Curve / AtulGawande 102
(3) Case Study: The Student Doctor and a Wary Patient / Marc D. Basson Gerald Dworkin and Eric J. Cassell 121
(4) A Students View of a Medical Teaching Exercise / AbenaaBrewster 127
(5) Primum non tacere: An Ethics of Speaking Up / James Dwyer 130
(6) Perspective Shift / Daniel Shapiro 143
(7) Facing Our Mistakes / David Hilfiker 145
(8) God at the Bedside / Jerome Groopman 154
From Part III Health Care Ethics and the Clinicians Role:
(1) Churchill King and Schenck: Ethics in Medicine: An Introduction to Moral Tools and Traditions
(2) George Annas: Informed Consent Cancer and Truth in Prognosis
(3) Benjamin Freedman: Offering Truth: One Ethical Approach to the Uninformed Cancer Patient
From Part IV The End of Life:
(1) Steven Miles: Informed Demand for Non-Beneficial Medical Treatment
(2) Timothy Quill: Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making
Schedule for A2 cycle:
FEB
Wk 4 1
A1 Due *Begin A2*
2
3
No class
(extra time for you to do your readings) 4 5
Class
6 7
FEB
Wk 5 8
A2 prewriting sheet due 9
10
Quiz on readings
Continue work on A2 prewriting sheet 11
12
Conferences for A2.
3 page draft due. 13
14
FEB
Wk 6 15
Presidents Day Holiday 16
17
Conferences for A2.
3 page draft due. 18
19
Conferences for A2.
3 page draft due. 20
21
FEB
Wk 7 22
4 page draft due for workshop 23
24
A2 due *Begin A3*
25
26
Begin discussion of A3 topics 27
28
Name:
Prewriting Sheet for A2
Step 1
Make a list of at least five topics issues or questions that you find interesting and/or important for health professionals to think about:
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Step 2
Now keeping the prompt below in mind choose any one reading and fill in the following:
1. Author:
2. Title:
3. Describe a significant issue raised by this piece of writing in one sentence.
Issue (one only):
4. Keeping the issue above in mind write a thesis sentence for Assignment 1 answering the following prompt:
Is the writer successful in conveying the significance and complexity of this issue?
Your initial thesis:
Note:
(a) Your thesis should consider the extent to which the writer is successful and why (and/or why not).
(b) A1 will be a 5-6 page thesis-driven essay.
(c) The thesis sentence should be no more than 1-2 sentences long.
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