Essay 1
Essay #1: Doctor and Patient Relationship The doctor-patient relationship always has been and will remain an essential basis of care, in which high quality information is gathered and procedures are made as well as provided. This relationship is a critical foundation to medical ethics that all doctors should attempt to follow and live by. Patients must also have confidence in their physicians to trust the solutions and work around created to counter act certain illnesses and disease. Doctor-patient relationships can directly be observed in both the stories and poems of Dr. William Carlos Williams as well as in the clinical tales of Dr. Oliver Sacks. Both of these doctors have very similar and diverse relationships with multiple patients in term change the way they go about clinically healing them. In the stories of Dr. William Carlos Williams the reader relives the experiences of different patients through the eyes of Dr. W.C Williams. After each story the reader gets a clear understanding of the feelings Dr. W.C Williams as it is expressed in his writing. One of the first stories the reader experiences is called “Mind and Body”. In this story Dr. W.C Williams is confronted with a disillusioned woman named Ingrid. She comes to him because she believes that she is suffering from an early stage of cancer. The relationship between the doctor and patient is faintly seen as any sort of connection. This is seen as throughout the reading, the speaker’s voice continually changes between the doctor and the patient; this comes down to a unstable set of communication. The woman constantly changes topics and continues to ramble even as the doctor is trying to figure out a diagnosis. Through the perspective of the doctor, it is described that the woman looks rather healthy and young. This is a complete contrast to what the woman is describing how she feels. In this situation it is difficult to properly gather quality information to figure out a solution when the