William Carlos Williams The Use Of Force

“The Use of Force” is a short story written by William Carlos Williams. In his piece, Williams depicts a doctor trying to examine a young girl who fights furiously against all his trials. When the doctor enters the room the first thing he asks is whether or not the girl has had a sore throat. Both parents replied no and the girl remained silent. The doctor describes the young girl as looking like one from an advertisement. As he tries to calm the girl get her to let him examine her throat, her mother says he will not hurt her, which only scares her further. When the doctor finally gets the tongue depressor into the child’s mouth she screams and then

Sule stated that, “The Patient Bill of Right adopted by American Hospitals Association states that ‘a patient possesses the right to be informed of the medical consequences of his or her actions and decisions and refuse treatment to the extent permitted by the law’. However, this is true only if the patient is in position to understand the consequences of his treatment. Incompetent, senile patients neither have the correct judgment regarding which treatment is appropriate for them, nor are they in a state of understanding the implications of their treatment. In such case, their willingness to grant or deny consent cannot dictate the course of treatment.” Problem with the Act is being able to find that the patient component enough to make such a call. Another issue that Sule stated was on confidentiality and autonomy. According to Sule, “This is another ethical issue erupting from the conflict of patient's rights and professional ethics in nursing job and profession. The Patient Bill of Right makes it mandatory for the medical practitioners to reveal the form and extent of the ailment along with the course of treatment to be undertaken by the practitioners. However, this law of autonomy clashes with the nursing ethic that the professional should maintain high degree of confidentiality regarding the patient's health and treatment.” This can cause conflicting issues in the NP’s

Another issue with the implementation of Informed consent arises when the patient waives the right to Informed consent and leaves the right to make the decision on the physician. Though legally correct, this can cause psychological stress for the physician especially when the decision is about a life threatening medical condition. Moreover, this also makes the patient vulnerable to abuse. (Manthous, DeGirolamo, 2003)

“The only appropriate and realistic model of the Dr.‐patient relationship is paternalism. Doctors are the medical experts; most patients have little, if any, reliable medical knowledge; implicit trust in one’s physician is essential to the healing process; and doctors have the responsibility for our health and therefore have the duty to make all the important medical decisions.” Critically assess that claim.

For example, forcing the individual to take medication which they have not wanted to take.

In the United States all patients are granted certain rights and if denied these rights they can take legal action. Every individual has the right to participate in all aspects of their care (Pozgar, 2012). Patients must be informed by their care team of the risks, benefits, and alternatives to treatment. After that it is up to the patient to determine whether or not they want to forego treatment or not. “Failure to respect this right can result in legal action for assault and battery” (Pozgar,

The NHS places the respect of all patients’ values first. This includes an individual’s cultural view, dignity, privacy and independence (NHS Patient Experience Framework www.institute.nhs.uk). This essay examines ethics in healthcare focusing on physical restraint. In order to create an analytical view on this subject, the 1998 death of David Bennett a 38 year old, Rastafarian African Caribbean, has been cited.

The poem “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” by William Carlos Williams, closely depict the painting while representing the theme of the story, because both the poem and the painting describe how characters ignore the fall and splash of Icarus. Instead, they continue with their activities undisturbed and concerned about their own lives. The painting and the poem display a complete ambivalence to the tragedy that occurred.

In the short story “The Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams a doctor went to help a little child that had a terrible throat disease. As the child became disturbed on letting the doctor see what was wrong with her, she reached towards him to attack him. By this time, the doctor had to use force on the child with the acceptance to use the force from her parents. He grasped the child's head with his left hand and tried to get the wooden tongue depressor between her teeth. She desperately fought back with clenched teeth. She fought back until she broke the wooden utensil. The doctor at this point became very irritated at the child’s stubbornness. When the doctor became agitated, he states his frustration he has towards the child, “I could have torn the child apart in my own fury and enjoyed it. It

In the short story the doctor was trying to pry mathilda’s mouth open. May a doctor have more power on whether to lie to his patient’s or to tell them the truth. A physician should respect the patient’s wishes on whether to live or whether to die. “The Use of Force’’ by William Carlos Williams brings up the question if it is ever justifiable for a medical professional to use force.

In William Carlos Williams short story, The Use of Force, he presents a doctor who uses force, believing that he is trying to save a girls' life. He uses point of view and symbolism to display how people have a difficult time separating their emotions and standards. Williams incorporates a sinister tone to show how people in higher power lose their humanity when they take advantage of the power they have over others. In The Use of Force, the first person point of view allows the reader to be conscious of the doctors' thoughts while he is forcing the girl to open her mouth. In the beginning, the professional doctor is concerned about the health of his patient, but as the story progresses, he finds pleasure in forcing the girl to open

William Carlos Williams was an American author, screenwriter, and poet who was “one of the great forces in the twentieth-century verse” (Rosenthal 1). Remarkably, Williams was also a professional doctor who continued to practice medicine fulltime while simultaneously writing hundreds of pieces of literature. He was the son of a New York businessman, spoke three languages, and even studied advanced pediatrics in Germany. He was part of the professional, upper class and had traveled around the world prior to practicing medicine. Williams stresses Marxism in the form of literature in “The Use of Force” through his creative display of clashing of social classes, power relationships, and the use of oppression.

The general awareness among patients on their rights during a medical procedure often conflict with the morals of the healthcare industry. Many times healthcare professionals are caught between

the story “The Use OF Force”, by William Carlos Williams. Is about a doctor who enter the household of a family in need of helping a sick child. While helping this child the doctor seems to be over aggressive with the child. In the story, the doctor says and does some disturbing things while treating the child which reveals his true self and makes him a reliable reader.

Imagine you are injured or sick and have sought a doctor’s help. Although you trusted your doctor, something, something seemingly very in control of the doctor, went wrong. You are angry and confused, but also think of the commonality of medical malpractice. So, why do doctors, who are supposed to help, harm? Though many flaws influence it, malpractice can be, and often is unintentional. Most doctors aren’t trained to harm their patients. Inexperience and lack of medical discovery led to unintentional suffering of the patient. Personal flaws, like lack of willingness to abandon previous medical methods and shortcomings in communication also harm patients. Further reasons why doctors harm are socio-medical understandings that breed hate, prejudices stemming from a society’s belief about certain people, such as the medical practice under the Nazi regime. Additionally, displayed in the case of Ignác Semmelweis, judgement of one to oneself can be detrimental to any progress one’s ideas could make. We will examine these concepts through Jerome Groopman’s “Flesh-and-Blood Decision Making”, Sherwin Nuland’s The Doctors’ Plague and Barbara Bachrach’s “In the Name of Public Health”. Those who practice medicine are, unfortunately, unfree from the imperfections that plague all of humanity. Through these intimate and varied faults, doctors do harm.