December 2011
7 posts
froggeek asked: I'm really on-board with Cary about the ego thing. I worked in medical sales and training for almost 8 years, focusing mainly on MDs and DCs (Chiropractors). The MDs were typically bright, decent guys, but their egos sometimes made it difficult to teach them anything, or even to get them to just LISTEN to what I was trying to say - even when I knew WAY more than they did on the subject at...
monkeyfrog asked: Nurses have an entirely different approach and philosophy from doctors. Our tasks overlap, but the approach is so different on some issues it's like choosing between a surgeon and a chiropractor. The biggest problem the nurses I know have with doctors is close minded arrogance, not knowledge problems. Just ego. I could go on at great length about this, having worked in hospital, clinic, and...
Doctors, Nurses, and the Credential Crisis:...
As you may have noticed these past few weeks, I’ve been thinking a great deal about anti-doctor sentiment. Whether it’s at a party or at lunch, on Twitter or in comments on news articles or on blog posts, there’s this anger at doctors. Doctors do their jobs poorly, doctors are trained “wrong” from the get-go, doctors should simply be replaced by nurses because nurses...
Building a We out of a "To Me" Nation
Last week I wrote on the idea of connection. How has the way in which we connect to one another, not only as people in society but as patients and physicians, changed? And how has it affected the patient/physician relationship?
I received two fantastic comments from Ian Welsh that I didn’t want to respond to in the comments because it’s worth bringing the discussion out into the open,...
Patients and Physicians: Frayed Edges
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the doctor/patient relationship.
When I conducted my research, I wasn’t able to observe the physicians interacting with their patients due to privacy issues and the approval I was granted by my university’s review board, but I observed the physicians as they conducted a lot of clinical work and spoke to them at length about patient care....
Symbolic Exclusion in a Diverse Democracy: A...
Last week, Reihan Salam responded to my piece on symbolic exclusion. He discussed how symbolic exclusion can be possibly used to understand where disagreements in diverse democracies are so hard to resolve.
Salam makes particular note of the idea that social exclusion is not a linear hierarchy but rather a set multiple of parallel hierarchies. I agree: social exclusion is no longer the...
