Interview Photos

This is University of Michigan Hospital - this is where Amit was finally diagnosed with neuroblastoma (pediatric cancer) and where he spent a majority of his next two years.

This is another emergency room that Rani visited (in canton), and here, Amit was "diagnosed" with pneumonia.

This is the first hospital that Rani took her son Amit to. She visited this hospital twice and the first time she went Amit was "diagnosed" with a common cold and the second time he was "diagnosed" with an ear infection.

Reading Response 2

The section I read in the book is called dividing lines- subsection: gender and it is mainly about the stereotype that girls talk more than guys do. On page 460 there is a cartoon about “When Guys Hang Out” compared to “When Girls Hand Out” and in the guys comment bubbles there are two words, and inside the girls comment bubble there are so many words that you can’t read what any of them are saying.
For my second reading response I read -Report on the Difference Between Men and Women written by Penelope Scambly Schott. This is a very short passage about a married couple, the husband and wife have been married for thirteen years and after “thirteen years and 27 days” (Pg. 461, Convergences) the husband asked the wife why she never buys lemonade - the kind of lemonade that’s frozen and comes in a can. Sure enough, the next morning the wife went to the grocery store and bought a big can of lemonade…while she was in the checkout line, she couldn’t help but wonder about that else her husband secretly wants but never told her about.
Although it might seem like girls talk more than guys do, it’s not true! In the book, Convergences, there is a statistic presented saying that both men and women speak and average of 16,000 words a day (Page 460). The passage I read had a “deeper meaning” behind the husband not getting lemonade, it was about what other things the husband might have kept from the wife after all the years they were married. In my opinion, the passage is suggesting that girls always speak their mind where as men tend to keep things to themselves.

Acedemic Articles

In the first article I read, “In Sickness and In Health Care – a student’s thoughts before beginning his medical training” from Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (2009), Brian Finkelman expresses that he is both fearful and excited about starting medical school. The setting of the article is at the hospital- the summer before Brian starts medical school. In the article, he starts by talking about his grandfather being sick at the hospital and switches to his thoughts of modern medicine, this trend continues throughout the entire journal article. The first aspect of medicine he mentions is bout medicine and society. He believes medicine will become so modern that people will have their entire genome (gene sequence) printed out and the people’s physician will have to read the sequence and tell the patient what potential diseases they could have and how to prevent them. Finkelman then talks about the problems with this genome print out and how difficult it would be to understand each patient’s genome. Another part of the article that stood out to me was Finkelman’s concern about how little the doctor visited his grandfather while he was in the hospital. Although he hated the fact that the physician only visited once a day, for about five minutes, Finkelman knew that he would be in the same position one day and he would have to completely diagnose a patient with only a few simple visits to see them. The purpose of Finkelman writing this journal article was so that he could relate his current experiences to how he would be spending the rest of his life- as a physician. Brian Finkelman writes to an audience of undergraduate students so they can understand what to look forward to when or if they become physicians.

Still working on articles 2 and 3