Thursday, February 15, 2007
Just The Facts!!
hey everyone!! sorry I'm posting so late. I've been at the doctors like all day for 2 days straight ugH! but anyway so here is what i got out of Campo's essay! i definitely think he points out how poeple today just fly through life and never take the time to really think about the effect they could have on someone else's life or even day! His patient just wanted someone there for him because he had been abandoned by his friends and didn't have anyone to talk to or smoke a good cigar with! Campo also identifies the importance that people put on labels and statistics. We all wait for the doctor's opinion because he has the final say in a diagnosis, yet they are only human. In today's world we look at statistics to tell us how life. Either its 4 out of 5 doctors recommend or 9 out of 10 people prefer, but when it comes down to it, they are just number without a story to tell. what do you think is the point Campo was trying to make in his essay!?
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Campo shares his regret about failing to reach out and provide comfort for his lonely dying patient; he fails to do so for the sake of upholding his "professionalism." That is what is wrong with the medical profession, too many M.D.'s view the patient as a number and a problem to be fixed instead of a distinct and unique individual person.
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