He Violated Vivian Analysis

He comes in to tell her that he will take off the bandages soon, and he hopes that the surgery worked. He too is viewing her under the gaze of others and viewing her as different because that is how society views her. Although he has the freedom to choose how he views her, he lives in bad faith because he is subjective to society. When the doctor leaves the room to talk to the nurse, he realizes that he feels bad for her. He wants her to be accepted in society, but not how she currently looks. Besides for demonstrating the gaze of others, he also is living for others by listening to the views of his society that he appears to disagree with. When he goes back into the room to take off her bandages, the leader is on the television screen. He talks about how people need to conform. The leader wants all his citizens to live in bad faith by living how he wants them to live. Not only is Janet subjected to this gaze, but this gaze is given because of people’s need to conform and live how others want them to

The narrator first talks about her experience with an elderly patient who had Gonorrhea. While presenting about a patient, Mr. Z the medical student reveals that Mr. Z has Gonorrhea because she feels that it might be relevant to the patient’s current diagnosis of dysuria and intermittent hematuria. When the resident made a comment that led the patient to realize that the medical student and revealed his secret, I realized how unlike the residents the medical student seemed to be more mature as she felt like a traitor in revealing the personal information to his colleagues. It really bothered me how later when the narrator said that the “privacy of your body is violated constantly by doctors and nurses.” While in context this makes sense, as doctors need to do physical examinations and ask multitudes of questions in order to ensure an accurate diagnosis, I don’t think it is doing justice to the

In the film, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, Vivian became a part of an aggressive experimental chemotherapy with eight months of full dose treatment. As the story goes there are ethical dilemmas that arises in her situation which is relevant to the ethical principles of the health care profession with regards to the experimental medical research and nurses serves as a patients advocate in ensuring appropriate treatment measures are being considered that will minimize the suffering and protect the health and well-being of the patient.

The doctor then stands up and heads towards the window, now facing the light. The nurse now becomes a metaphor for society and how most people think, and him turning her back towards her and facing the light shows him beginning to turn his back on society and starting to question and reject it, thus becoming enlightened. Every time the doctor starts to critically think out loud, the camera goes from a medium shot to a medium close up of the back of his head. He then begins to talk about how he sees Janet's "real face" or her actual self. This scene was after Janet broke down to the doctor, questioning who says what is attractive and normal, and saying a powerful quote "This state is not God." This clearly affected the doctor and got him thinking and realizing that she is a human being. Earlier in this scene, the nurse refers to Janet as "Patient 307" rather than her own name. This shows how society can easily dehumanize people when we do not deem them functioning members of society, for there is nothing more demeaning then being referred to as a number as we have seen in terrible times such as the Holocaust referring to the concentration camp members. The nurse, remaining in the dark, says "It's easier for me to think of her as human when her face is covered up".

Although Dr. Sacks does not understand medically why Dr. P behaves this way, he still has compassion for his patient which is shown by the way he describes Dr. P’s emotions. He writes, “Such incidents multiplied, causing [Dr.P] embarrassment, perplexity, fear.” (Sacks 8). As a reader I have compassion for Dr. P because I know what it is like to have the emotions of embarrassment, perplexity and fear, so I am able to be placed within his position. He writes Dr.P’s emotions throughout the text, to make you feel as if your in the story and meeting Dr. P. Such emotions include, amusement, indifference, (10), unclarity.

Vivian recalls undergoing tests by various medical technicians and being the subject of grand rounds. She remembers sharing a love of language and books with her father. She flashes back to her experiences as a student of Dr E. M. Ashford, an expert on John Donne. Bearing later finds herself under the care of Dr Jason Posner, an oncology research fellow who has taken her class on John Donne. At the hospital, she recognizes that doctors are interested in her for her research value and, like her, tend to ignore humanity in favor of knowledge. Gradually, she realizes that she would prefer kindness to

Compassion is a powerful humane trait to understand the suffering of others and which every healthcare professional must possess. In the beginning of the movie, Dr. Kelekian’s tone is devoid of any expression of empathy or intuition of what an announcement of having last stage ovarian cancer may mean to Vivian. He makes it a point to be detailed first, and then somewhat compassionate. He could have been more sympathetic and asked her to sit down before informing her of the condition. He is also more interested in his research and without much explanation hands over the consent letter to Vivian, not bothered of how she feels or if she has accepted her situation. Furthermore, without thinking of the Vivian’s emotion, Dr. Kelekian strongly urges Vivian to "keep pushing the fluids," not for the sake of her treatment but for the benefit of the research. He says, "You 're doing swell. Isolation is no problem. Couple of days. Think of it as a vacation,” as if she were a human machine.

It was truly disappointing to see the way most of the healthcare professional interacted with Vivian in this movie. I agree that there is a lack of compassion throughout this movie. Particularly, Dr, Kelekian and his team failed to treat Vivian with compassion because they were more focused on the research. For instance, Suzie asked Dr. Posner to lower the dose because she felt that it was too much for the patient. Dr. Posner completely disregarded what the nurse said and states “no way, she’s tough; she can take it full dose”. I find this upsetting because he made a decision without asking the patient on how she wants to continue the treatment.

The movie The Doctor, has allowed us to see health care from a different perspective than we are used to seeing with that being from the patient perspective. This movie follows Jack, a doctor, and his experiences with receiving treatment for cancer. In the movie, Jack finally realizes that there is more to his job than just having a lot of education and being able to operate well on his patients. He sees what it is like to be the patient communicating with not only the doctor, but other health professionals as well. This is something that we need to be good at in the healthcare field due to communication being one of the biggest obstacles for patients when receiving proper health care.

Some information might confuse and other information might alarm the patient. So it was for the doctor to decide in the light of his training and experience what needed to be said, and how it should be said. But he went on to add these words ([1985] 1 All ER 643 at 666, [1985] AC 871 at 904)

Language development and communication skills have been changing throughout a person’s lifespan. According to Erikson’s psychosocial stage of personality development, doctor and his patient Sean, both of them are in the development stage of young adulthood, whose age range is between 21 and 39 (Marcia & Josselson, 2013). Because of more mature communication abilities and interpersonal skills in adulthood, people usually come to know one another in greater depth. However, those two people in the clip hold the diametrically opposite attitude towards communication, the doctor basically in a intimacy state while the patient in isolation. As the doctor in the intimacy stage, he has the sense of creating a comfortable environment for the patient. Moreover, the doctor also has the ability to use therapeutic communication skills and tries to acquire the basic trust with his patient. Obviously, the doctor is successful in a committed relationship. He is able to open up and communicate well with others. In contrast, the patient isolates himself from the public and he does not respect or follow his doctor 's advice. Also, he failures to establish effective communication skills when communicating with his doctor, such as the use of harsh tone of voice. Those communication

This film revolves around a well-renowned heart surgeon, Dr.Jack MacKee and his transition from being a self-centered uncompassionate medical physician to a more compassionate individual. This film also highlights on several major ethical issues and moral principles built on a medical healthcare background. Medical ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values and judgments to the practice of medicine which help the doctor to decide what is morally right. Basic principles of medical ethics are respect for autonomy (respect the patient’s ability to take decisions on behalf of themselves), beneficence (do good), non-maleficence (do no harm), and justice (treat equitably and

The patient-physician dialogue is not finished after discussing the diagnosis, tests, and treatments. For the patient, this is just a beginning; the news is sinking in. The physician should anticipate a shift in the patient's sense of self, which should be handled as an important part of the meet—not as an unpleasant plot twist to a physician's preferred story line.

To begin, there appeared to be tension between the nurse and patient. Further, this was the second day in a row with the same assignment. The first approach to the patient excluded a warm welcome. The primary focus was centered on completing the task. Important to note, Stenhouse (2011) remarks that many patients’ experience is dependent on the nurse’s approach which generally shows similar patterns. In the context of the situation, the approach demonstrated a disinterest of communication. Subsequently lack of communication leads to experiencing alienation, when patients expect the nurse to talk with them (Stenhouse, 2011). Moreover, the approach prior to the confrontation illustrates the frustration on the patient’s end. There was no acknowledgement

The nurse used questions to solicit information, expression, and concerns from the patient and also to check patient understanding (McCabe & Timmins, 2013). Also the nurse used a mix of different types of question styles like open-ended questioning which gave Paul the opportunity to give varied answers and closed-ended questions which allowed him to give a more definite answer (Funnel et el, 2009). Also, rather than using medical jargons, idioms and slangs, The nurse used standard and simple language so Paul could understand and participate in the interaction. (Andrews &Boyle, 2008).