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
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I think you picked an interesting topic as
ReplyDeletehealth care is a hot topic in our society today. I think you answered the questions that were asked of us: Who, what, where, when, why. The things I would change are minor. I would get rid of the dash in the sentence beginning "The setting of the article..." I also would change the sentence about the physician visiting to , "...only visited 5 minutes once a day..." The last thing is just a typo.."The first aspect of medicine he mentions is bout medicine and society"..Good luck!