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 RelationshipAssignment 2The Culture of Medicine and the Physician-Patient RelationshipRhetorical 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 154From 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:FEBWk 4 1A1 Due *Begin A2*23No class(extra time for you to do your readings) 4 5Class6 7FEBWk 5 8A2 prewriting sheet due 910Quiz on readingsContinue work on A2 prewriting sheet 1112Conferences for A2.3 page draft due. 1314FEBWk 6 15Presidents’ Day Holiday 1617Conferences for A2.3 page draft due. 1819Conferences for A2.3 page draft due. 2021FEBWk 7 224 page draft due for workshop 2324A2 due *Begin A3*2526Begin discussion of A3 topics 2728Name:Prewriting Sheet for A2Step 1Make 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 2Now – 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.


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