Back in June I posted about an article in The NY Times [Well-Chosen Words in the Doctor’s Office ] that caught my attention for the similarities I saw between doctors and teachers.
Researchers who conducted interviews a few years ago with 192 patients at the Mayo Clinics in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Rochester, Minn., identified seven “ideal physician behaviors.” Patients want their doctors to be “confident, empathetic, humane, personal, forthright, respectful and thorough,” the researchers wrote in Mayo Clinic Proceedings in 2006.
_____ urges _____ to build rapport with their _____ by greeting them warmly by name, asking briefly about important events in their lives, maintaining eye contact, focusing on them without interruptions, and displaying empathy through words and body language.
In today's NY Times, Abigail Zuger reviews two books that broadly cover the effects of technology in the practice of Medicine. And the same thing happened - I am reading an article about medicine, but hearing the words inside a school.
Dr .... [listening to his stethoscope] grumbled at his patient: “Shhhh. I can’t hear you while I’m listening.”
In his collection of essays, Technological Medicine, Stanley Joel Reiser begins in 1816 with the stethoscope, and moves forward in time to the present. In her review, Zuger summarizes
Technology may spawn elevated philosophical discussion, but it also has mundane needs. It needs a home — hence the morphing of the ______ from a ______ to its present gleaming industrial self. It needs expertise — hence the evolution of the ______ sub-sub-specialist and the slow demise of the generalist. It needs regulation — injudicious use can be, in the words of ______, “extraordinary violence in desperate occasions.”
And of course, technology needs to be paid for ....
Looks like the stethoscope had about a 100-year head start on the Standardized Test.
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