Reading The Trouble With Medicine’s Metaphors
Dhruv Khullar
Khullar opened with a compelling heart felt message that provokes emotion towards a loved one. He talked about the will to live and to fight through ones sickness. The metaphors used to describe medicine have been challenged by his views. Setting up numerous examples, he displays the way that metaphors play a role in the communication between a doctor and a patient. Factual experiments were presented to show help provide evidence for his cause. The correlation between how you emotionally feel versus what your actually feel via touch. The compassion included the idea that one person could change the way they feel when they touch something wether it would be hot or cold. His message to the reader is that is it appropriate to communicate a fictitious metaphor when talking about the journey one has to go through to survive. Could one person intake more negative emotional damage when using a metaphor to describe there sickness?
This judement looked upon by Dhruv Khullar, in my opinion, is true and untrue. I see that metaphors can be an extremely good thing. Communication between a patient and doctor is vital to helping one. Without proper communication, it’s is hard for the patient to properly understand what exactly is happening to them. Metaphors used, wether it be military or not, can better stranslate a message than using difficult medical terminology. The evidence presented is very subjective. I feel it is extremely difficult to examine ones emotion based of off outside sources. The human brain is very complex. One persons brain can be different from another’s and to compare emotions is very subjective. One key piece pointed out in the last paragraph is that it’s up to the patient how they see the metaphor. The only important part is that the patient see the issue and however they want to attack it.
“By describing a treatment as a battle and a patient as a combatant, we set an inherently adversarial tone, and dichotomize outcomes into victory and defeat” The Trouble With Medicine’s Metaphors
This quote shows how metaphors can mentally invade a person and disrupt ones course to great health.
“The danger is that they’ll discard the enterprise before they’ve looked out the window” See Through Words
The dangers behind not comprehending a metaphor can result in poor communication by a medical professional making it hard for a patient to understand.
“And metaphor keeps the mind shaking, rattling and rolling, long after Elvis has left the building”. Metaphorically Speaking” by James Geary
This shows that the mind of a human is aloud a gateway to continue on through the difficult reality of a chronic illness
You picked out wonderful quotes. You are well on your way!
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When you summarize a source as a way of introduction, you will want to use broad strokes. Decide what is necessary to understanding the overall text (include) and what is extraneous (cut). You can dive into details later–as they serve your ongoing claims.