Rajamannar Spring 2016/Advanced Writing for Health Sciences/The Culture of Medicine and the Physician-Patient Relationship

Rajamannar Spring 2016/Advanced Writing for Health Sciences/The Culture of Medicine and the Physician-Patient Relationship Assignment 2 The Culture of Medicine and the Physician-Patient Relationship Rhetorical goal: In this unit, you will be practicing skills that are essential to both professional and academic writing: analyzing texts, selecting key elements of those texts to focus on, and making an argument about why those elements are important. Readings: From The Social Medicine Reader, Vol I: Patients, Doctors and Illness, ed. Nancy M.P. King et al. Second Edition. Duke University Press, 2005.????? From Part I, "The Experience of Illness": (1) Arthur Frank: "The Cost of Appearances" From Part II, "The Culture of Medicine and the Physician-Patient Relationship": (entire section) (1) Basic Clinical Skills: The First Encounters / Melvin Konner 89 (2) The Learning Curve / AtulGawande 102 (3) Case Study: The Student Doctor and a Wary Patient / Marc D. Basson, Gerald Dworkin, and Eric J. Cassell 121 (4) A Students View of a Medical Teaching Exercise / AbenaaBrewster 127 (5) Primum non tacere: An Ethics of Speaking Up / James Dwyer 130 (6) Perspective Shift / Daniel Shapiro 143 (7) Facing Our Mistakes / David Hilfiker 145 (8) God at the Bedside / Jerome Groopman 154 From Part III, "Health Care Ethics and the Clinician's Role": (1) Churchill, King, and Schenck: "Ethics in Medicine: An Introduction to Moral Tools and Traditions" (2) George Annas: "Informed Consent, Cancer, and Truth in Prognosis" (3) Benjamin Freedman: "Offering Truth: One Ethical Approach to the Uninformed Cancer Patient" From Part IV, "The End of Life": (1) Steven Miles: "Informed Demand for 'Non-Beneficial' Medical Treatment (2) Timothy Quill: "Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making" Schedule for A2 cycle: FEB Wk 4 1 A1 Due *Begin A2* 2 3 No class (extra time for you to do your readings) 4 5 Class 6 7 FEB Wk 5 8 A2 prewriting sheet due 9 10 Quiz on readings Continue work on A2 prewriting sheet 11 12 Conferences for A2. 3 page draft due. 13 14 FEB Wk 6 15 Presidents’ Day Holiday 16 17 Conferences for A2. 3 page draft due. 18 19 Conferences for A2. 3 page draft due. 20 21 FEB Wk 7 22 4 page draft due for workshop 23 24 A2 due *Begin A3* 25 26 Begin discussion of A3 topics 27 28 Name: Prewriting Sheet for A2 Step 1 Make a list of at least five topics, issues, or questions that you find interesting and/or important for health professionals to think about: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Step 2 Now – keeping the prompt below in mind – choose any one reading and fill in the following: 1. Author: 2. Title: 3. Describe a significant issue raised by this piece of writing in one sentence. Issue (one only): 4. Keeping the issue above in mind, write a thesis sentence for Assignment 1 answering the following prompt: Is the writer successful in conveying the significance and complexity of this issue? Your initial thesis: Note: (a) Your thesis should consider the extent to which the writer is successful, and why (and/or why not). (b) A1 will be a 5-6 page thesis-driven essay. (c) The thesis sentence should be no more than 1-2 sentences long.