How Is the Doctor/Patient Relationship Reflected in These Poems and Stories? What View of William Carlos Williams’s Struggle as a Doctor and Poet Does the Doctor Stories Present?

The doctor-patient relationship is central to the practice of medicine and is essential for the delivery of high-quality health care in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. A patient must have confidence in the competence of their doctor and must feel that they can confide in him or her. Doctor- patient relationship is reflects in these stories by patients always seeking him out and him always taking care of them regardless if he gets compensated or not. Doctor Williams always seems to put on a frown on his face depending on the type of patients he sees. For example, in the story “Jean Beicke”, doctor- patient relationship reflects the fact that he focuses on her in particular over the other children and helps her to gain weight and sort of overcome her sickness for a while. Thus this made the child gain trust for the doctor and responded to him well. On the other hand in the story “A Night in June” Williams Carlos Williams claims to admire Angelina and at the same time he compares her to a cow and yet, he always does the right thing, no matter the cost in effort and emotional pain. His patients are his inspiration just as they need him he also needs them.
They are the reason why he is a good doctor. Doctor Williams loves and honors them. It doesn’t matter if you have money or not he’s always willing to help. He is a very compassionate doctor and this is why all his patients loves and trust him. Sometimes he doesn’t want to look at them because they don’t pay him but once he finds out about their situation he rethinks his opinions and help the patient. For example, take the story “A Face of a Stone” the husband asks the doctor to check out his wife and the doctor gets a little angry, and reluctantly checks her. He finds that her legs were extremely bowed and then the woman explains about her past. After he hears of the woman’s suffering he becomes empathetic and suddenly understands the fearful tenacity which had annoyed him before. The