How did you interpret the patient and her motivations in the story?
I interpreted the patient as being very neglectful. She was motivated by the idea of keeping her secret hidden so that she could escape having to bear the experience of getting diagnosed with this disease and going through the torture.
How did you interpret the doctor and his motivations in the story?
I interpreted the doctor as not only doing his job, but doing it with a purpose. He was very caring, and he didn’t treat the little girl as an object to be fixed, but he saw her more as a person that he needed to save. His motivations were to save the little girl so that she would not result in yet another …show more content…
Power and submission operated with the doctor/patient relationship because the doctor held the power of having the experience and expertise of being able to diagnosis the patient, so the parents listened to the doctor no matter how sassy his remarks were or even when he threatened their child to apply force because of her consistent refusal to conform. This doctor/patient relationship might have been changed by a more biopsychological model of treatment because instead of proceeding immediately into the procedure he should have first making a relationship with the patient, then she probably would have been more trusting and compliant.
What is the role of the ‘use of force’ in doctor/patient relationships? (Both in the story and outside of it?)
The role of the ‘use of force’ in doctor/patient relationships in the story is only applied when the little girl started to get aggressive and when she refused to comply after various attempts of being very gentle and patient. It was used first as a threat to get the child to comply, but then used to get evidence of the membrane associated with diphtheria. Outside of the story the ‘use of force’ in doctor/patient relationships is used for the same reason. Doctors use