Plots
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A small, good thing
A common theme between Mar, Oately, and Brody
Storytelling *in many forms* is a fundamental part of the human experience and can help understand differences/similarities/people/medicine
A Small Good Thing, propagating "gendered roles" in healthcare institutions
"Practice is not a bad thing but it's a necessary thing" (and what story)
Gawande "Intro"
Placebo Effect vs Voodoo Death
Thinking something to be true and feeling better even if it's not vs thinking something to be true and feeling worse even if its not
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Virus in the Machine
A common theme between Virus in the Machine, Cultural Bias in Medicine, and Gawande
Westen Medicine and patients just wanting doctors to do something...anything
Hospital Administrator, sense of pride for their job
Betsy DeLacy
"A hospital is a dehumanizing institution"
Kitty Scanlan
What is meant by Crowd Mind?
people grouping reactions to things/events together, think bandwagon
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Beauty in Breaking
A common theme between Gawande and Brody (not storytelling in medicine)
Physicians don't know everything
An individual who had a stereotypical racial "awakening" in the medical care setting (and what story?)
Chester, Robert (A Balck Man in a White Coat)
"While significant advances have been made in areas of racial equality, we still have miles to go"
Harper; Beauty in Breaking
What is catharsis?
psychological realization/ breakthrough
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The Function of Fiction
A common theme between Working, the Hippocratic Oath, and The Use of Force, Selzer, Gawande, Beauty in Breaking
Ethical/Moral Dilemmas in medicine
A person with a healing spirit
"It is our inability to communicate to another how we are locked within ourselves, unable to say the simplest thing of importance to one another...even the most valuable, that makes out lives [so hard]"
The Practice, Williams Carlos Williams
How does Gawande discuss themes around observations of medicine to the outside world?
Real vs Perceived medicine (people have assumptions but its deeper then that)