How Does Dr. Sacks Understand Medically Why?

Prominently featured in the mission statements of virtually of every medical school and medical institution in the world is the call for empathetic doctors. These institutions wish to train medical professionals that possess qualities of sympathy and compassion, and hospitals wish to employ health professionals that showcase similar qualities. The reality, however, is starkly different, as physicians, jaded by what they have seen in the medical world, lose the qualities that drove them to medicine in the first place. In Frank Huyler’s “The Blood of Strangers,” a collection of short stories from his time as a physician in the emergency room, Huyler uses the literary techniques of irony and imagery to depict the reality of the world of a medical professional. While Huyler provides several examples of both techniques in his accounts, moments from “A Difference of Opinion” and “The Secret” in particular stand out. Huyler uses irony and imagery in these two pieces to describe how medical professionals have lost their sense of compassion and empathy due to being jaded and desensitized by the awful incidents they have witnessed during their careers.

His use of a light, humorous tone shows that he was probably a very comical person. His personality is shown often through what he says and

Oliver Sacks is a very famous doctor of neurology as well as a writer. He spent most of his adult life treating patients. Oliver Sacks mostly concentrated on disorders of the brain and nervous system. In a lot of the cases that Sacks dealt with, there was nothing he was able to do to heal the patients. His goal was to find a way to live with and accept their condition as well as possible. Sacks enjoyed dealing with cases mostly about experiences of real people struggling to live with unusual conditions. That’s where he wanted to find ways to help these patients to the best of his and medical ability out there. Throughout his cases he studied he came across patients who had different

In a changing world, it is very hard for an individual to have their own identity, choice, and free will. Oliver Sacks in “The Mind’s Eye” examines the lives of several different people and how they adapt to their blindness in their adult years. Blindness is the main topic in Sacks essay, and he uses it to portray the life situations that humans cannot control no matter what precautions they take part in. Sacks also focuses on the topic of the human brain having a characteristic of plasticity. With this characteristic, the brain can make shifts in response to certain senses that are deprived. People do not choose the life they live; therefore one’s life is shaped using their own experiences and imagination. Their experiences

Throughout this story we as readers are aware that the doctor himself is suffering from a similar illness as his dead patient. This plus losing his girlfriend Anna can be the cause of him depression. The narrative starts by him stating “this is just unbearable” (344) ; referring to his depression. As the story goes on, his illness becomes intolerable and almost seemingly impossible for him to life with. This is seen on page 361 in the HHR when the doctor says “it hurts so much”. A chaos narrative displays “Illness as permanent state of disaster” (Week 2, Page 44). This can be seen on page 353 when the dead patient’s father says to the doctor that the doctor agreed with his son that “life was meaningless and

One thing that affects judgement is cognitive abilities. This is one thing that Dr. P really struggled with. To him nothing had names but only detail. The detail of a person or object is the only thing that Dr. P could regonize. He continued to be successful is music because there is no right or wrong for music. Music is completely abstract and not cognitive so Dr. P could still succeed in that. Music has no names or labels such as objects that Dr. P can’t tell things from another. Sacks was showing pictures and object to Dr. P

For the purpose of this report the book On the Move: A Life is critiqued. In the review of Dr. Oliver Sacks’ book On the Move: A Life the main topics of interest are: what is discussed in the book, whether or not the information in the book is understandable, how reliable the book is and whether or not the audience can relate to On the Move: A Life. The memoir is of Dr. Oliver Sacks’ life from when he was a medical school student into, his aged life. Many personal accounts of his life are included, and is seemingly the most intimate book that the doctor has written. By examining On the Move: A Life will give rise to answering the questions that will be considered.

The author uses a personal anecdote to back up his claims on why he didn't want to be a doctor as a kid. With this being said the doctor uses more emotion apple to attract his readers, for example when he mentions going back to visit

But he did have a job to do, and it wasn’t the one he was doing with his hand. So he comforted her, once more seeking to alleviate her guilt. But my, weren’t the things he said interesting? How sucking her teacher off might make her feel like a woman, an equal. That being the object of obsession for an older man was intoxicating. That a young woman might get addicted to that power. Oh, the good doctor was so close! So very close, not that he’d be able to see it until it was too late.

Despite being excellent in medical practice, Doc Martin is ill-tempered, bad-mannered and without social skills. The villages take offence in his direct and emotionless attitude. The Doc’s poor bedside manner often leaves patients unsatisfied; however, the doc views his approach as professionalism

As much as the story is not compared to a soap opera, Anton Chekhov's short story, "The Doctor" brings a dramatic environment with a base of suspense and grief that cannot ignore the melodrama aura. Olga, the mother of the terminally-ill son Misha, practically breaks down at the thought of having to give up on her son. While the doctor, Nikolay Tsvyetkov/Trofimitch, does not seem to know how to handle these kind of emotional situations. Some may say that showing emotional stress is quite unfitting for a doctor until later when Nikolay hints the possibility that Misha might be his son. Denial and emotional volcanoes arouse, as well as the grief and tragedy that follows of Misha’s fate. Because of not knowing how to process his feelings efficiently,

Paralleled to former decades, when an individual enters a medical facility their experience relies heavily on technological advances, with diminished personal care and attendance. Patients uncover themselves encased in white-stricken walls, reeking of rubbing alcohol, as they wait for their five-minute interaction with an emotional-deficient healthcare provider. Based on my experiences and the text, I do agree with the author that modern medicine lacks emotional intelligence, as healthcare providers generally disregard patient tears while continuing to present medical facts. The truth stands, “Medicine in modern society has defined its mission it terms of curing disease – the medical disorder – while overlooking illness – the patient’s

Have you ever seen a doctor cry? Although many patients have never seen this natural occurrence, doctors often do cry or mourn privately. Physicians are believed to be detached from their emotions, when in reality their emotions have a strong impact on how they practice medicine. In her book, What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect The Practice of Medicine, Dr. Danielle Ofri argues that emotions affect doctors extensively while they practice medicine by sharing her and her colleagues’ personal stories. Dr. Ofri, a renowned, experienced Internalist at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, published this book in 2013 as a response to Jerome Groopman’s How Doctors Think and as one of her many attempts to improve the patient-physician relationship. By giving more insight on how doctors are affected by emotions, Ofri argues that patients, healthcare administrators, and medical educators will be able to be more empathetic towards doctors and will thus better the healthcare system.

* As a novelist, he is often noted for the powers of invention and depth of psychological insights found in his work; a skill defined by G. K. Chesterton as being able ‘to pick up the right word up on the point of his pen’.

practical psychologist with an amazingly clever mind and a strange capacity for feeling. It was not the beauty of Nature which brought him joy and peace, but the life in Nature. He himself had caught a dream of that life. He knew it and felt it, and it transformed the whole of existence