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Doctors
"Doctors" by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Man dies too soon, beside his works half-planned.
His days are counted and reprieve is vain:
Who shall entreat with Death to stay his hand;
Or cloke the shameful nakedness of pain?
Send here the bold, the seekers of the way--
The passionless, the unshakeable of soul,
Who serve the inmost mysteries of man's clay,
And ask no more than leave to make them whole.
I am a physician! And as a physician, I feel emotionally strengthened by reading this classic poem by this famous poet from India. I feel encouraged and proud that I am in the right profession and doing the right thing. Shouldn't I? ..Maurice.
3 Comments:
All of us here are glad you made the choice to be a physician, Dr. B. Yes, indeed you should feel proud. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and wisdom with us through this blog.
Dr Mo, I have read umpteen volumes of the Patient Modesty. I appreciate your willingness to discuss ethics within medicine. To me, protecting a patient’s modesty is an issue of respect, pure and simple. If a doctor/nurse view you as a person, a human being worthy of respect, they will also respect your modesty.
With that said I must unfortunately draw your attention to the following link about the training of medical students and the dehumanization process that occurs along the path to becoming a doctor. What written there is not for the faint of heart.
http://upalumni.org/medschool/appendices/
Particularly the entries titled: Gross Anatomy, Dehumanization, Textbook Misogyny, Pelvic Examination. It gets worse at the next two links:
http://upalumni.org/medschool/surgery.html
http://upalumni.org/medschool/ob-gyn.html
A large body of literature supports the idea that the language used in informed consent forms is not understood by the majority of research participants. Create an informed consent document understandable to international research is an additional challenge, because usually is written first in English and then translated into local language. El Nacional Kenya Medical Research Ethics Committee determines the readability of consent forms before the English translation, however, is neither policy nor practice to determine whether the forms, once translated into Swahili, are read comparable to the English forms. Thus, the purpose of this study is to measure and compare the difficulty of the text in 10 pairs of English informed consent forms and forms translated Kiswahili. The results show that a consent form not legible English language necessarily translate into a format readable when translated into Kiswahili.
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