HW 28: Comments

 For Omar: Your most beautiful line was your last paragraph when you said "  not respect in the sense of being polite but respect in the sense of being treated as if they were a human being and as if their life was of value, because after all these are both true." This seems very true they still treat the people with the same politeness however, as a human being and the value of their life is a different story.  This is something that most people myself included to other people in life. I think this is beautifully written, as so true.  People probably do this sub-consciencely, I sure do think so. Is there a way to fix this now, I don't have the answer.
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From Omar: I think the best part of this HW was that you showed the actions of someone receiving sufficient medical care, which is a situation we hardly dealt with in this unit. It was interesting how you talked about people reactions to her even after she was out of the hospital and how she reacted to that. The lack of knowing how to act around the ill or recovering is still awkward regardless of the medical treatment they receive. Good job at focusing on a topic we went into little depth about. Maybe there is some relation between the patients behavior and their health for example if your cousin was still sick would they like to be babied or not, how would their wants change depending on their situation.



From Stephen:(Abdul's younger friend): Your best part about your paper was that you were able to make many observations while at the hospital. You were in a scary place and you were able to focus alot and pay attention to Marsha's behavor. You said " It made me very happy to be treated this way from doctors despite all that I've recently been learning in class, about doctors treating patients rather terribly". You were really paying attention to the nurses to make sure they would nice to your cousin good job.



From Ms.D: Coming Later Today She is a very busy woman please understand. I am helping her grade quizes on friday though.  I'm glad that your cousin made a full recovery and that she was surrounded by you and other relatives as she did. I agree with Omar that it's commendable that you focused on an instance of doctors providing good care if that issue has 'hardly been dealt with' in your class. Many doctors are compassionate and it's valuable that you brought that up since it's always more interesting to look at an issue like healthcare from various angles.
I was very interested by your theory about why your cousin received good care: "I thought because my cousins condition wasn't that bad the doctors had a easier time treating my cousin as a human being and not a patient." You mentioned that doctors may not want to get attached to very sick patients, and you are probably right. As you say, it might be easier for doctors to relate to another relatively healthy person, or at least to feel less life-or-death pressure. On the other hand some people go into the practice of medicine in order to deal with the very sick and may give more care and attention to very ill patients. For example I have a friend who works with HIV patients, and she generally spends more time and gives more thought to those who have AIDS and are dying than those who are simply HIV positive and come to the hospital for check ups and such. I imagine that how sick a patient is does impact how certain doctors treat him or her as you said; however, I think that while some doctors may treat healthier patients better, others may reserve their compassion for the sickest of all. It would be interesting if someone did a study on this! 
In some ways I can connect your theory to teaching. There's a saying that teachers teach best the students who learn as they did when they were students. I'm not sure whether that's true, but it is true that some teachers have more success and more enjoyment teaching students who grasp the material easily, and other teachers prefer working with students who really struggle. I wonder if the doctors who prefer working with very sick patients are ones who have experienced illness themselves, just as oftentimes SETSS teachers and those who enjoy working with struggling students overcame such learning issues themselves...