Patricio Acosta Essay #3 April 15 2014 Are You a Doctor? The story named “Are you a Doctor” by

Although I’m not a doctor, Dr. Almonds book, Stories of a West Virginia Doctor pulled me in to keep me guessing throughout his many stories to make me feel as if I was the doctor working the case. I would try to guess the diagnoses of the patients, and I came to care for them as well. I aspire to become a doctor one day, so I found this book exceedingly interesting!

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.

William Carlos Williams' Doctor Stories tell the realities of being a physician. The physicians in the Doctor Stories tell the careful balance that many doctors face throughout their careers. From addiction to lust, to more, doctors are humans with human emotions. William Carlos Williams proves that doctors can still perform their jobs despite interesting conditions. Through the expression of characters and slight sadness expressed in his short stories, coupled with his expressive poetry, William Carlos Williams conveys the feelings a doctor has that makes them no different than other people.

In this essay I am going to examine how Dr Watson is used as a

The movie “The Doctor” takes an intimate look at the life of a surgeon who is immensely detached from his patients and often acts callously towards his patients and even his family. The arrogance and heartlessness that are seen in the beginning of the movie slowly become subdued when Jack McKee finds out that he has a malignant tumor. The diagnosis of the life-threatening tumor forces Jack to reevaluate his life and in turn allows Jack to see life from the perspective of a patient. The differences in McKee’s character are abundantly evident but one of the best examples of how much he truly changes are how starkly different the opening scene in the surgery suite is as compared to the final scene in the surgery suite. When the movie opens

Dr. Vincent Lam is a profound Canadian physician and writer. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures is his award winning novel that speaks on the reality of what it’s actually like to be in medical school aiming to be apart of a medical profession and the difficult expectations students must face while still managing to stay sane during those challenging years of their lives. It’s a collection of short stories partly based off of his experiences in the medical field, following the lives of fictional characters Ming, Fitzgerald, Chen, and Sri as they endure medical school and later work as doctors. Dr. Lam does a remarkable job at incorporating unique and compelling characters with intriguing storylines who face common and extraordinary moral dilemmas that seem to shape their overall characters. Lam introduces themes of love, fear, tradition, drugs, death, self doubt, duality, etc.

The turning point of the story is when the doctor started to act mean towards the little girl, and thinking to himself how he enjoyed it. The little girl knocking his glasses off and trying to claw at his eyes was probably the final straw for him. All he was trying to do was help her, and all she was doing was making it even more difficult. In my opinion I believe she was the reason he began to enjoy acting mean towards her, so his thoughts could have been and probably were a normal thought of someone who was trying to do their job, and just got stuck with a difficult patient.

First, _________________________________. Throughout the entire novel, he recounts a plethora of personal medical experiences derived from his ears surrounded by and immersed in surgery. Furthermore, he clearly lays down his credibility towards the beginning of the novel by stating, “I am a surgical resident, very nearly at the end of my eight years of training in general surgery… At other times I have been a laboratory scientist, a public health researcher, a student of philosophy and ethics, and a health policy adviser in government. I am also a son of two doctors” (Gawande 7). By stating his expansive experiences, people are more adept to agree with his displayed views later in the writing. Medicine is a controversial topic, and introducing these past experiences plays a critical role in

From the story, William depicts the difficulties that people have towards separating their emotions and standards. The doctor’s behavior towards the girl and the young patient’s reaction emphasizes the subject of this discussion. However, the use of ethos, the narrator portrays his character as a credible doctor in the story. The character of both the patient and the doctor reveal a plausible issue comparable in real life. During this period there is and epidemic of diphtheria, which worsens the situation forcing the doctor to take aggressive measures in treating his patient. Revealed through his words, the doctor first tries kindness; “Awe, come on, I coaxed, just open your mouth wide and let me take a look.” (Williams, 1984) However, the reaction from the girl is repulsive, forcing the doctor to be firm. The young girl’s character shows the conflict of her role as a patient and that of her personality. This is revealed by the fact the she is spoiled and

In these works, seemingly strange events occur and are left unresolved, provoking the audience into a state of uncertainty so they can interpret the content for themselves. This leads to the audience discovering the deeper

You always do’”(40). The overall effect is it gives off an air of mystery that keeps the reader guessing. Rather than giving everything to the reader like A secret Sorrow,

Every plot point and storyline shift is a puzzle piece the author puts down in front of the reader to bring him in on their secret.

Bringing forth the idea of a character's analysis of a situation is critical when revealing the secrets of Tough Questions. In 1984, during Winston’s meeting with O’Brien, Winston realizes “for the first time the vagueness of his own motives. Since he did not know what kind of help he expected from O’Brien” (140). The underlying question Winston proposes is obviously answerable by the author only, however it proposes the idea of numerous outcomes to Winston’s situation. Each individual reading the story now has an abundance of possibilities at their fingertips, convincing them to read more to figure out if their conclusion was correct. Bradbury does this in a different way, when Montag realizes that “Beatty had wanted to die” he proposes the unwritten question of why (116). This question leaves the reader feeling a sense of uncertainty towards outcome of the rest of the story. This feeling is important, due to Tough questions also relating to the overall progression of a story. Without questions left to be answered, an author could not progress their story. Take for example when Winston receives a note and “on it was written, in a large unformed handwriting I love you;” following when Winston aquries the note he sets out on a mission to find the girl who had given it to him, sadly he “Just once caught a glimpse of the girl” (91). Without the note and Winston questioning why

This is all to have them anticipate the ending and the solving of the mystery, to keep them gripped. Even the very title of the novel is unclear and does well to conjure up ideas inside the readers mind. It is only until the whole story is took in and the ending is unveiled that the reader can fully appreciate and understand

The first literary technique that is utilized to provide a stronger and more meaningful epiphany in “I Want to Know Why” is the noticeable tone shift in the story prior to the epiphany to after the moment of realization. The tone of Anderson’s story is blithe and enthralling, giving the reader the feeling that the narrator enjoyed going to the horse races, sneaking out and journeying long distances just to see them. The story describes the senses that the narrator experiences and how exciting the entire experience always is to him, as the narrator states that, “Every thing smells lovely.